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Threat intel and Cybersecurity research firms: if you're not providing RSS feeds to your blog, you're hurting your brand.
Whatever traffic you think you're driving to the site by preventing analysts from ingesting feeds is outweighed by the reputational damage of not providing a service we expect and rely on.
And if your reason is because it's hard behind Cloudflare, well, you're telling on yourself twice.
@mttaggart Also please always give the option for full RSS feeds not Atom feeds. Rarely, do I want to read only a couple of lines.
@mttaggart RSS is hard behind Cloudflare? Yet another reason to stay away from those cunts.
@elricofmelnibone Basically if you're turning on anti-bot protections, you kill RSS feed collectors.
@mttaggart But why? Rate limiting is a thing that exists, they could easily apply that to RSS feeds instead of the wholesale bot "protection" garbage they've got going on.
Yay centralisation. Sigh.
Unfortunately, they know that the analysts/users aren't the ones writing the checks.
See also: the reason why business IT software is so universally awful.
@DaveMWilburn Maybe not but it's an easy fix and it prevents potshots like this. You cannot tell me there's a real business case for not doing it. Almost universally it's because of lazy usage of a CMS and/or CDNs.
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