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I use Feedburner to deliver RSS feeds on my blog, and I prefer delivering them as E-mail subscriptions, but for past few days, I have been noticing that people are subscribing to my RSS feeds using other feed readers, such as mozilla built-in feed reader. I want to disable this, is there a way I can detect the user agent of "Mozzila compatible Agent"'s user-agent and input it somewhere in feedburner to disable the non-email subscriptions on feedburner?

Basically, I don't want anything except e-mail subscription in below screenshot- Feedburner Dashboard

Prateek Singla
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    Why on earth would you want people to NOT get your content in the form they want? – Julien Genestoux Jan 20 '15 at 11:57
  • Because, I want to keep track of my subscribers, I want to see who all are reading it, I can reach them using e-mail. But I can't reach them using other sources. – Prateek Singla Jan 20 '15 at 13:45
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    @PrateekSingle Firstly, you could easily just post something to that RSS feed if you want everyone to see it, instead of requiring that you email them. Secondly, this is off-topic for SO -- maybe it would be better for SuperUser or Server Fault. – Nic Jan 22 '15 at 19:17
  • Even if blocking in Feedburner based on user-agent was possible, the people subscribed to the feed by other means than by email could just subscribe directly to your Original Feed, possibly even faking their own user-agent as Feedburner. If they didn't , and you blocked them from doing that, they could create a Feedburner feed from your Original Feed themselves, and subscribe to that in any means that want. – Matti Nescio Nov 21 '15 at 02:18

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