Mouser has apparently CDN-blocked me from browsing their site. I can load the homepage fine, but any attempts to visit a product page give a denied message.

I emailed them about it and got a vague message back about "behavior patterns that resembled automated site scraping activity" and linking me to their paid search API. Apparently trying to view one product page after looking up a P/N in the search box qualifies as scraping?

Anyway, I guess I'm taking my business to Digi-Key.

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@azonenberg Mouser has always seemed incredibly paranoid about scraping, even before the current LLM misery. They block basically anything that doesn't look like a bog standard browser on a bog standard system, as far as I can tell.

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