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Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users

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556 points campuscodi | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 22:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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belkinpower ◴[17 Oct 24 06:26 UTC] No.41866944[source]▶
I maintain an RSS reader for work and Cloudflare is the bane of my existence. Tons of feeds will stop working at random and there’s nothing we can do about it except for individually contacting website owners and asking them to add an exception for their feed URL.
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sammy2255 ◴[17 Oct 24 06:50 UTC] No.41867055[source]▶
Unfortunately its not really Cloudflare but webadmins who have configured it to block everything thats not a browser, whether unknowingly or not
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afandian ◴[17 Oct 24 06:59 UTC] No.41867113[source]▶
If Cloudflare offer a product, for a particular purpose, that breaks existing conventions of that purpose, then it’s Cloudflare.
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1. echoangle ◴[17 Oct 24 07:18 UTC] No.41867200[source]▶
Well it doesn’t break the conventions of the purpose they offer it for. Cloudflare attempts to block non-human users, and this is supposed to be used for human-readable websites. If someone puts cloudflare in front of a RSS feed, that’s user error. It’s like someone putting a captcha in front of an API and then complaining that the Captcha provider is breaking conventions.