Disable comment feed links for block themes #41195
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What?
This PR disables the comment-feed links for block themes.
Why?
Comment feed links trigger a whole lot of crawling bots to hit them, and then they spiral down to get individual comments. This makes absolutely no sense, causes a ton of additional requests to servers, increases hosting costs and carbon emissions for something that is not needed in 99.9999999% of the cases. If a site really needs them, they can always use the WP filter to enable them.
Comment feeds should be opt-in, not enabled by default.
Changing things for classic themes may be questionable, but at least we can do what's right for block themes.
Hopefully, in a few years when block themes are the norm, we will save a lot of unnecessary requests.