A blog owner explains why visitors may be blocked from accessing their site, attributing it to anti-crawler measures targeting old browser user agents. High-volume crawlers, many suspected of gathering LLM training data, frequently spoof outdated Chrome user agents. The post also addresses edge cases for Inoreader, Feedly, Vivaldi, and archive.today users, offering workarounds and contact information for false positives.
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A special note to people using Inoreader (the feed reader)A special note to people using Feedly (the feed reader)A special note for people using VivaldiA special note for people using archive.*39 Impressions