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: 0.288s | 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]▶

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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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1. nirvdrum ◴[17 Oct 24 16:42 UTC] No.41871267[source]▶

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I contend this wasn’t an issue prior to Cloudflare making that an option. Sure, some IDS would block some users and geo blocks have been around forever. But, Cloudflare is so prolific and makes it so easy to block things inadvertently, that I don’t think they get a pass and blame the downstream user.

It’s particularly frustrating that they give their own WARP service a pass. I’ve run into many sites that will block VPN traffic, including iCloud Privacy Relay, but WARP traffic goes through just fine.

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