Many users prefer to use an RSS feed reader to stay up to date with the content on the websites they visit. But if you've enabled Cloudflare on your w

Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users

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2024-10-16 23:00:05

Many users prefer to use an RSS feed reader to stay up to date with the content on the websites they visit. But if you've enabled Cloudflare on your website, you're likely blocking these RSS users from accessing your website content without realizing it.

In Cloudflare's dashboard, you'll find tools designed to block bot traffic to your website. Particularly, the Bot Fight Mode and block all "AI scrapers and crawlers" options below. When enabled, these features end up blocking users who access your website through RSS readers, even though RSS readers are legitimate and aren't malicious bots.

When enabling the tools, Cloudflare will evaluate each visit to your website and determine whether the visit is from an AI scraper or "bot" based on a score , which ironically Cloudflare uses AI to generate.

Then, when a user's RSS reader attempts to read your website, Cloudflare presents it with a number of challenges that the reader would never be able to fulfill.