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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: 0.001s | source
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amatecha ◴[17 Oct 24 06:43 UTC] No.41867018[source]▶
I get blocked from websites with some regularity, running Firefox with strict privacy settings, "resist fingerprinting" etc. on OpenBSD. They just give a 403 Forbidden with no explanation, but it's only ever on sites fronted by CloudFlare. Good times. Seems legit.
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pessimizer ◴[17 Oct 24 13:23 UTC] No.41869439[source]▶
Also, Cloudflare won't let you in if you forge your referer (it's nobody's business what site I'm coming from.) For years, you could just send the root of the site you were visiting, then last year somebody at Cloudflare flipped a switch and took a bite out of everyone's privacy. Now it's just endless reloading captchas.
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1. philsnow ◴[17 Oct 24 17:49 UTC] No.41871887[source]▶
Ah, maybe this is what’s happening to me.. I use Firefox with uBlock origin, privacy badger, multi-account containers, and temporary containers.

Whenever I click a link to another site, i get a new tab in either a pre-assigned container or else in a “tmpNNNN” container, and i think either by default or I have it configured to omit Referer headers on those new tab navigations.