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Re:Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users by capitainenemo on Thursday October 17, 2024 @01:57PM (#41871966)
It's a tiny percentage of visitors, but a tech savvy one, and depending on your website, they could be a higher than average percentage of useful users or product purchasers. The impact could be disproportionate. What's frustrating is many websites don't even realise it is happening because the reporting from the intermediate (Cloudflare say) is inaccurate or incorrectly represents how it works. Fingerprinting has become integral to bot "protection". It's also frustrating when people think this can be drop in, and put it in front of APIs that are completely incapable of handling the challenge with no special casing (encountered on FedEx, GoFundMe), much like the RSS reader problem.

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