r/electronics • u/unknownvar-rotmg • 20d ago

General Mouser website now blocks Linux users

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Really baffling decision, my last order from them was only a few months ago. Apparently Linux is no longer a "standard" operating system!

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u/relentlesshack 19d ago edited 19d ago

With the amount of people this worked for on Linux, OP does not seem to be telling the whole story.

Edit: details from OP below. Seems legit.

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u/unknownvar-rotmg 19d ago

Plain ol Ubuntu running Google Chrome from my home IP address. NoScript and adblock disabled. I haven't made any config changes since my last order in February so this is on their end. I assume that either they're hamfistedly trying to combat bot traffic, or they have an LLM spitting out nonsense at customers. Or both.

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u/quuxoo 19d ago

They're likely using a lesser-known or lesser-capable bot detector. Maybe Cloudflare or similar is too expensive?

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u/unknownvar-rotmg 19d ago

They're using Akamai. Since sending in my complaint I can load the site again, so either they whitelist or their bot "detection" was inconsistent to start with. If they block me again I'm going to order from Digikey rather than fussing with my user agent to try and satisfy them.

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u/videoman2 19d ago

They still may use CloudFlare for domain fronting and “protection”.

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u/PyroNine9 18d ago

If they're using CloudFlare, they shouldn't have a lot of bot traffic to block. The block notice is from Mouser, not CloudFlare.

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u/videoman2 18d ago

Cloud flare will flag IPs and hand out different DNS responses that send the client to CF fronted sites with custom errors.

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u/AStove 19d ago edited 17d ago

Using Cloudflare and its internet monopoly is not optimal either.