Can I have a quick message 'from the trenches'? I notice that my feed reader is getting a lot more 403 responses. Even on websites that did appear to take some kind of care for their RSS feed. I think I understand. Cyber-attacks are on the rise, resistance to AI bots ingesting everything unabatedly is taking shape. These start to weigh much more than basic security or wanting to keep a tight control how the public 'consumes' your content (and thus needs to limit themselves to the singular channel that is browsing with a fully standards-complient browser.) So I guess the little that I can do is launch a call here: when website-administrators decide to slap on a bot-buster system like Cloudflare, please think of the (loyal, returning) consumers of your content that use your RSS feed. That said, if things get worse, I might need to switch to a head-less browser to collect the RSS XML data for me, and have it silently handle any fingerprinting javascript interjections for me. Which — I guess — will exactly be the thing AI bots will start doing as well. Yes, I use em-dashes. Did so long before it apparently is an AI-tell nowadays. Another way the AI-hurt is getting personal. I guess I'll read up on Reddit API things now.   submitted by   /u/stijnsanders   to   r/rss [link]   [comments]