NewsBlur is in the Verified Bot program with Cloudflare, and I’ve reached out to them multiple times and they won’t give me any information on where NewsBlur stands.
My hope is that if enough of NewsBlur’s user make noise over on the Cloudflare forums, then we can finally reach somebody high up enough at Cloudflare to allow NewsBlur to fetch those feeds.
I spoke with a publisher this morning and he said that Cloudflare recently increased their “protection” on all of his sites as of a month ago, and that led to a large number of bots being blocked. He’s been whitelisting them individually because that’s the only way to get them in.