diff --git a/about.toml b/about.toml
index b5a1348e..33999740 100644
--- a/about.toml
+++ b/about.toml
@@ -14,9 +14,11 @@ accepted = [
 	"Unicode-DFS-2016",
 	"Zlib",
 ]
+workarounds = ["ring"]
 ignore-build-dependencies = true
 ignore-dev-dependencies = true
-workarounds = ["ring"]
+# Clearly Defined's API would occasionally (every few months) return errors for at least a full day (maybe some weird rate limiting?), but we can just disable to perform local checking (see #1653)
+no-clearly-defined = true
 
 # https://raw.githubusercontent.com/briansmith/webpki/main/LICENSE
 # is the ISC license but test code within the repo is BSD-3-Clause, but is not compiled into the crate when we use it