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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: 0s | 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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jasonlotito ◴[17 Oct 24 14:07 UTC] No.41869823[source]▶
Cloudflare has always been a dumpster fire in usability. The number of times it would block me in that way was enough to make me seriously question anyones technical knowledge that used it. It's a dumpster fire. Friends don't let friend use Cloudflare. To me, it's like the Spirit airlines of CDNs.

Sure, tech wise it might work great, but from your users perspective: it's trash.

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1. immibis ◴[17 Oct 24 18:08 UTC] No.41872085[source]▶
It's got the best vendor lock-in enshittification story - it's free - and that's all that matters.