Did you know Feedburner sucks? Well it does.

If you were naive enough to turn your feed over to Feedburner, you’d be pleased it now is four times as accessible compared to your vanilla WordPress feed.

Here is a demonstration:

• http://feeds2.feedburner.com/TechCrunch
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch
• http://feedproxy.google.com/TechCrunch
• http://feedproxy.feedburner.com/TechCrunch

Speaking of naiveness… do you know how Feedburner actually works? It’s real simple.

It seems that Google’s recommendation is to redirect anyone without “Feedburner” in their useragent.

So, if someone is using Feedburner and uses automatic excerpts or has spliced a ton of crap in his feed *cough*this blog*cough*, you just need to use “Feedburner” for your feed fetcher’s useragent and grab the full unmodified feed directly from the blog.