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They can't whitelist useragent, otherwise bot will pass just using agent spoofing.

If you have enterprise plan, you can have custom rules including allowing by url

Not sure if I get this.It seems to me an RSS reader is as much of a bot as a browser is for HTML. It just reads RSS rather than HTML.

The difference is that RSS readers usually do background fetches on their own rather than waiting for a human to navigate to a page. So in theory, you could just set up a crontab (or systemd timer) that simply xdg-open various pages on a schedule and not be treated as bots.

I was responding to a person with Firefox issues, not RSS.

I'm not sure either if RSS bots could be added to good bots, but if anyone has traffic from them, we can definitely try. (No high hopes though, given the responses I got from support so far)