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magic:
I referred to the issue brought up by KE5FX.

They can't be assed to help you filter out results from suppliers you know are unreliable based on your personal experience, but they will "appreciate" your "feedback" about such suppliers so that they can better verify them and optimize their careful balance between pissing off their paying customers (i.e. the part suppliers, as I understand) versus pissing of the users without whom the customers wouldn't be paying.

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Looked it up, yes, it looks like their revenue is fees from the suppliers listed there.
And they are associated with Y combinator and the American startup scene → guaranteed to be all about calculated, cynical ripoff, money milking and "data driven" business optimization.

bookaboo:
I thought Altium owned Octopart:
https://octopart.com/blog/archives/2015/08/octopart-is-joining-altium-2

Or have they been bought out recently? I'm sure I heard it mentioned on a recent Altium YouTube as well.

tom66:
This is the perfect opportunity to write a Tampermonkey script or similar to filter anything out that isn't Digikey, Mouser, Farnell, Arrow, etc.

I will say I do still like Octopart and use them every day even if they have problems.  The inventory history in particular is very useful, you can get an idea if supply for a part is transient or if a supplier is keeping up with demand.

fourfathom:

--- Quote from: magic on January 25, 2023, 02:58:13 pm ---guaranteed to be all about calculated, cynical ripoff, money milking and "data driven" business optimization.
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Otherwise known as "not going bankrupt."

Karel:

--- Quote from: fourfathom on January 27, 2023, 01:54:20 am ---
--- Quote from: magic on January 25, 2023, 02:58:13 pm ---guaranteed to be all about calculated, cynical ripoff, money milking and "data driven" business optimization.
--- End quote ---
Otherwise known as "not going bankrupt."

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There's no middleway anymore?

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