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I also get CloudFlare now blocking my access to RSS feed MP3s for some podcasts. Once the almighty CloudFlare deems you a threat, your IP is burned. These days I can use less and less of the internet.

I really want to just see us get to the point where we don't have to rely on such services. I refuse to use them or any other for services I run, DDoS be damned.

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I also refuse to use them for anything. A decade or so ago I spent 2 years barely able to access any site using cloudflare, won’t forget that

It goes to show the flaws of centralised services where you are not the customer. Not only is there no one to complain to, you can’t even take your money/traffic elsewhere as the competitors probably use cloudflare too

Cloudflare's default settings are very hostile to RSS feeds in general. They block these as part of bot blocking. Which of course is silly because these are intended to be accessed by bots. Even Cloudflare's blog RSS feed is affected by this.

I agree this is a problem, and we're actively working to fix it.

Specifically, there's a ticket in progress to improve how bot mitigation handles requests for certain types of static content (including RSS feeds).

Good to hear. It seems to me that more or less all static content should be exampt because it can be cached so serving it doesn't cost the origin anything.

Of course there are ways to bypass the cache with bogus URL parameters that make this difficult and some customers that are concerned with scraping even if that content is "static".

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