Threat intel and Cybersecurity research firms: if you're not providing RSS feeds to your blog, you're hurting your brand.

Whatever traffic you think you're driving to the site by preventing analysts from ingesting feeds is outweighed by the reputational damage of not providing a service we expect and rely on.

And if your reason is because it's hard behind Cloudflare, well, you're telling on yourself twice.

@mttaggart

Unfortunately, they know that the analysts/users aren't the ones writing the checks.

See also: the reason why business IT software is so universally awful.

@DaveMWilburn Maybe not but it's an easy fix and it prevents potshots like this. You cannot tell me there's a real business case for not doing it. Almost universally it's because of lazy usage of a CMS and/or CDNs.