RSS feeds broken? Getting 403 Forbidden

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Example:
Plex for Apple TV
forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-ios/31524.rss

Debugging feed:

[06:32:18/118607] start
[06:32:18/118607] running HOOK_FETCH_FEED handlers...
[06:32:18/118607] feed data has not been modified by a plugin.
[06:32:18/118607] local cache will not be used for this feed
[06:32:18/118607] last unconditional update request: 2021-03-23 16:46:29
[06:32:18/118607] maximum allowed interval for conditional requests exceeded, forcing refetch
[06:32:18/118607] fetching [https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-apple-tv/121357.rss] (force_refetch: 1)...
[06:32:19/118607] fetch done.
[06:32:19/118607] effective URL (after redirects): https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-apple-tv/121357.rss (IP: 64.71.144.207)
[06:32:19/118607] source last modified: 
[06:32:19/118607] unable to fetch: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden [403]
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Answering for myself, looks like this might be overzealous user agent filtering:
https://community.tt-rss.org/t/plex-forum-403-only-with-tt-rss-user-agent/4559/2

If so, really bizarre considering how easy it is to change the UA?

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