Wed 2 Sep 2026
If you use Cloudflare, you may be blocking RSS users. Came across this link on Mastodon today and I’m sharing it as a bit of a heads up:
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.
Consider unblocking RSS readers if you must use Cloudflare. For powRSS specifically, you can keep an eye out for the powRSS/<version> (+https://powrss.com) User-Agent.
source & further reading
enocc.com — original article
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