I've been using RSS feeds for about a year to get notified about new releases and it's been working well, until a few weeks ago (end of October) when they started returning 403s:
$ curl -I https://itch.io/games/newest/tag-automation.xml HTTP/2 403 [...]
This seems to be caused by the Cloudflare verification. I'm assuming this was recently added to itch.io. It would be great if the admins could whitelist the RSS feeds to fix that issue, and if not maybe someone here will have a workaround?