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More precisely described as "block non-sanctioned user agents".

Using that feature will ensure I never visit your site again.

It's a free wiki so not visiting is a right you have, sure .. but also OP shouldn't have to spend loads of $ to host a free wiki and at the same time support a very bespoke thing such as non standard user agents.

> is a right

I believe they're saying that cloudflare will block them just for using a blacklisted client, even if they're legit users and not bots

Not even that; it's a whitelist, not a blacklist, and the only clients whitelisted are essentially those of Big Browser.

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