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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: 0.205s | 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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sammy2255 ◴[17 Oct 24 07:04 UTC] No.41867131[source]▶
Not really. You wouldn’t complain to a fence company for blocking a path if there were hired to do exactly that
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1. shakna ◴[17 Oct 24 07:50 UTC] No.41867356[source]▶
Yes, I would. Experts are expected to relay back to their client with their thoughts on a matter, not just blindly do as they're told. Your builder is meant to do their due diligence, which includes making recommendations.