Can’t whitelist Flipboard

What is the name of the domain?

What is the issue you’re encountering

Cloudflare’s Bot Fight Mode is blocking me from sharing stories from Medium to Flipboard.

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

I was told: “Couldflare recently made some changes that resulted in Flipboard being blocked in Cloudflare’s Bot Fight Mode. However, this has been fixed now. Please allowlist these two user agents: “Flipboard” and “FlipboardProxy” and these two proxy IP addresses: 23.23.178.171 and 23.23.178.169.”

I tried this and made SKIP the action, also turning on all options.

Was the site working with SSL prior to adding it to Cloudflare?

Yes

What is the current SSL/TLS setting?

Flexible

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

I need to be able to share stories from ABitDodgy to Flipboard.

I’d give it a try to add each IP address with the action “Allow” under the Security tab → WAF → Tools → IP Access Rules.

Might take some minutes for update and apply.

If that doesn’t work, then if you’re on a Free plan you’d have to disable Bot Fight Mode feature due to the Limitations as stated on the article below, otherwise you could bypass it on a Pro plan (at least) with Super Bot Fight Mode:

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I think we’ve determined that since Cloudflare’s involvement is DNS Only, that nothing I do will have any effect. I’m reaching out to Medium instead to see if they can do something on their end.

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