←back to thread

Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users

(openrss.org)
556 points campuscodi | 3 comments | 16 Oct 24 22:46 UTC | HN request time: 1.516s | source
Show context
jgrahamc ◴[17 Oct 24 08:00 UTC] No.41867399[source]▶
My email is jgc@cloudflare.com. I'd like to hear from the owners of RSS readers directly on what they are experiencing. Going to ask team to take a closer look.
replies(7): >>41867476 #>>41867836 #>>41868190 #>>41868888 #>>41869258 #>>41869657 #>>41876633 #
viraptor ◴[17 Oct 24 08:15 UTC] No.41867476[source]▶
It's cool and all that you're making an exception here, but how about including a "no, really, I'm actually a human" link on the block page rather than giving the visitor a puzzle: how to report the issue to the page owner (hard on its own for normies) if you can't even load the page. This is just externalising issues that belong to the Cloudflare service.
replies(3): >>41867521 #>>41867531 #>>41873429 #
methou ◴[17 Oct 24 08:23 UTC] No.41867521[source]▶
Some clients are more like a bot/service, imagine google reader that fetches and caches content for you. The client I’m currently using is miniflux, it also works in this way.

I understand that there are some more interactive rss readers, but from personal experience it’s more like “hey I’m a good bot, let me in”

replies(2): >>41867783 #>>41867984 #
1. viraptor ◴[17 Oct 24 09:51 UTC] No.41867984[source]▶
It was a mental skip, but the same idea. It would awesome if CF just allowed reporting issues at the point something gets blocked - regardless if it's a human or a bot. They're missing an "I'm misclassified" button for people actually affected without the third-party runaround.
replies(1): >>41869745 #
2. fluidcruft ◴[17 Oct 24 13:58 UTC] No.41869745[source]▶
Unfortunately, I would expect that queue of reports to get flooded by bad faith actors.
replies(1): >>41872200 #
3. viraptor ◴[17 Oct 24 18:19 UTC] No.41872200[source]▶
Sure, but now they say that queue should go to the website owner instead, who has less global visibility on the traffic. So that's just ignoring something they don't want to deal with.