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Yeah, it's content marketing. It's got all the stylistic tells: - Giving more background than is appropriate to the subject (explaining what cloudflare is in
by fishtoaster 4y ago
Yeah, it's content marketing. It's got all the stylistic tells:
- Giving more background than is appropriate to the subject (explaining what cloudflare is in an article about bypassing it)
- Lots of fluff about "what we're going to cover" like it's a poorly-written highschool essay
- Asking and answering questions rather than stating things: "Can Cloudflare be bypassed? Thankfully, the answer is yes!"
I'm not entirely sure what drives these things, but they seem to be very common in this sort of content marketing article. I'm guessing a lot of it is SEO-driven.
This particular article has more actual content than most, but still ultimately devolves into an ad, of course.
- return_to_monke 4y ago> - Asking and answering questions rather than stating things: "Can Cloudflare be bypassed? Thankfully, the answer is yes!" > I'm not entirely sure what drives these things, but they seem to be very common in this sort of content marketing article. I'm guessing a lot of it is SEO-driven. I suspect that this is them trying to get into Google's "frequent question"/"people also ask" [0] box, because that seems like a common search term ("can you bypass cloudflare") [0]: https://www.brightedge.com/glossary/people-also-ask https://www.brightedge.com/glossary/people-also-ask
- throwaway81523 4y agoAnother tell: emphasizing various phrases by boldfacing, as if the rest of the article is not intended to actually be read. I find the mention of a series A fundraising round at the top interesting too. Do the funders really expect something other than an escalating technical arms race that eventually outpaces them?