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[EPAIII]

The problem is the web developers are supervised by, guess who. WEB DEVELOPERS! They read about the latest and greatest ways to set up web sites and are absolutely convinced that it must be done that way. And that is what they expect from their department full of web developers.

They have the latest and greatest computers with the absolute latest operating systems. They have the latest and greatest programs for developing the web sites. They have as much memory as their latest and greatest computers can possibly hold. And they take advantage of every bit of those advantages. They don't have any computers that are even six months old - why would they? Oh, and they have the latest and greatest cell phones. So they have absolutely NO IDEA as to how their web sites will perform with anything that is even the slightest bit less than the latest and greatest in every single respect. Why would they even want to know? It works on THEIR computers and cell phones.

If you want web sites that work for the average Joe, you need to have those developers work for a person who has NO understand of how they are doing things. For a person who has a ten year old computer with half the memory that was recommended when it was new. A computer that is bogged down with tons and tons of malware. A computer that is three generations behind in it's operating system. And when they tell this department head that the site is operating great, he/she tries it out with that computer and his/her complete lack of how to use the super slick "features" they created and they are yelled at so loud that the building shakes.

They are NOT writing software to please themselves with how smart and slick their web pages are. They are there to write software to allow an 85 yo grandmother with ZERO knowledge of the internet to find and buy what is being sold. And to do it super easily and quickly.

If I were running such a department, every desk would have two computers and two cell phones. At around 2 PM the "latest and greatest" ones would be shut OFF. For the rest of the day each and every one of the developers would spend the rest of his or her day trying to use the web sites they are creating with the ten year old computers and cell phones that are chocking with malware. Once a week they would be asked to invite their grandmothers in to try and use the sites they created. Or perhaps people selected at random off the street. Or perhaps from an old folks home.

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Digi-Key did get back to me saying the repeating bot test was due to my "old browser". Yet the problem was fixed afterwards with no change to my browser 

The web developers don't know anything about electronic components, and their management seems uninterested in making the website better.
In the end, everybody appears busy and takes home a paycheque.

Sometimes I see improvements, but no - I just tried choosing a voltage in picklist search-filter for linear Vreg.
Type in "5V" and everything containing a "5V" shows up like "-19.5V" or "3.3V, 2.5V, 2.63V" FFS 
Website still considers it a text string most of the time. Sigh. After all these years, EE's can't enter a number to the Digi-Key website without Idiocracy happening.

Scroll down and click the 5V output, its still way better than mouser/newark/etc. Maybe you can suggest to them to support quotes in the filter.

For fun, tried to buy 2032 lithium coin cells. There supposedly are issues shipping lithium batteries - but the US has a small cell exemption they seem to be bungling. No CR2032 is blowing up or burning anything, ever.
Search results gave me marketplace-only listed "Jaunch America" and $41 shipping and "This product is unavailable in your selected currency."
Why the currency error message?  Change to $USD and it's $30 shipping for the $0.35 battery, hilarious.
This is no fewer than 4 website errors. Sigh.

I have had CR2032's pop and burn up, its very very rare but happens. A few out of 20,000+ cells, not sure of the exact cause.

Anyway, they don't want to ship lithium batteries to Canada due to the additional hassle it requires, which is completely fair. Google TDG regulations.
If you actually want to purchase CR2032s, either get them from Ebay from a canadian seller or from Amazon, then they can ship local mail.

[floobydust]

Scroll down and click the 5V output, its still way better than mouser/newark/etc. Maybe you can suggest to them to support quotes in the filter. [...]

I choose Output Type: Fixed, Number of regulators: 1
Here's the Digikey picklist of {censored}:

Voltage - Output (Min/Fixed)
...
4.9V
4.9V (5V)
4.95V
5V
5V, 3.3V
5V, 5V
5.05V
5.1V
5.14V
5.15V
...

Most of the values are silly. What do the mystery brackets mean and why multi-value? I've always wanted a 5.14V regulator not a 5.15V one 
They don't understand there is a nominal value with a tolerance window. This is just for a linear voltage regulator. They've been around over 50 years and a very rudimentary search returns silly results that take time to manually filter out in my fuzzy head.

Mouser's picklist:
...
4.6V
5V
5.05V
6V
7V
...

[...] I have had CR2032's pop and burn up, its very very rare but happens. A few out of 20,000+ cells, not sure of the exact cause.

Anyway, they don't want to ship lithium batteries to Canada due to the additional hassle it requires, which is completely fair. Google TDG regulations.
If you actually want to purchase CR2032s, either get them from Ebay from a canadian seller or from Amazon, then they can ship local mail.

I remember hazloc testing CR2032 and they hard short them and nothing happened that could start a fire, so the agency said. I think for Zone 2.
Shipping I hear the barrier is due to the complex paperwork to get them into Canada. Unfortunately grocery stores ask $7 for a CR2032 (Energizer) now and price-gouging for brand-name coin cells is rampant.