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Some clients are more like a bot/service, imagine google reader that fetches and caches content for you. The client I’m currently using is miniflux, it also wor
by methou 2y ago
Some clients are more like a bot/service, imagine google reader that fetches and caches content for you. The client I’m currently using is miniflux, it also works in this way.
I understand that there are some more interactive rss readers, but from personal experience it’s more like “hey I’m a good bot, let me in”
- _Algernon_ 2y agoAn rss reader is a user agent (ie. a software acting on behalf of its users). If you define rss readers as a bot (even if it is a good bot), you may as well call Firefox a bot (it also sends off web requests without explicit approval of each request by the browser).
- sofixa 2y agoTheir point was that the RSS reader does the scraping on its own in the background, without user input. If it can't read the page, it can't; it's not initiated by the user where the user can click on a "I'm not a bot, I promise" button.
- viraptor 2y agoIt was a mental skip, but the same idea. It would awesome if CF just allowed reporting issues at the point something gets blocked - regardless if it's a human or a bot. They're missing an "I'm misclassified" button for people actually affected without the third-party runaround.
- fluidcruft 2y agoUnfortunately, I would expect that queue of reports to get flooded by bad faith actors.
- viraptor 2y agoSure, but now they say that queue should go to the website owner instead, who has less global visibility on the traffic. So that's just ignoring something they don't want to deal with.