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When the Web Becomes Marketing Disguised as Articles

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 23, 2024

The quality and relevance of material on the Web is waning.

Today we quickly examine an example of this trend, which started around July 23 2024 i.e. exactly a month ago.

I want to start by clarifying that FOSS Force does produce some legitimate articles, such as this latest one about LibreOffice. It's just a shame that some marketing chaff has been posted for a month now, maybe more (well, maybe weeks longer), primarily promoting some company in a series of puff pieces. Here are most of the pieces in one page:

Marketing disguised as articles

This is the kind of chaff which we say spoils today's Web. It's not about FOSS (low specificity), it's just some n “Data Center” stuff, and it promotes some company. We can only guess it is being paid for, i.e. it's some form of marketing. There are about a dozen pieces like these already.

If this was sensibly and clearly labeled (disclosure or "Sponsored"), maybe it would be better. █