Interesting. I've read about virtual influencers [1] and this seems to be somewhere in the middle. We'll probably reach a point where famous influencers will provide "templates" on top of which companies providing t-shirts/makeup/bags/etc. will put their products on.
While I do support this change from a users' perspective, I find it hard to believe Facebook's official reason to "honor users' choices". What's the real motivation behind this Facebook update?
Doubt there's an affiliation. The whole article is written from a perspective of how founders can use these features to build their MVPs faster (curious how nobody in the comments mentioned this).
I think calling it clickbait is too harsh. The right headline would be: "Cloudflare announces 3 changes which have the potential to disrupt 3 industries in the near/long future". So it's somewhere in the middle between "totally describing what's inside" vs. clickbait-y.
Seems like these announcements were part of Cloudflare's "Birthday Week"[1]
More features that weren't mentioned by OP:
- CF released an email routing feature
- They released their domain name registrar (you could previously only transfer, but now you can also register domain names) using wholesale prices. I'd also classify this as a "disruption" because CF is not taking any profit with this one (but they have a lot to gain in terms of data if you route your domain traffic through them.)
Every marketing channel goes through it, and TikTok is at the beginning of the whole process.
[1] https://andrewchen.com/the-law-of-shitty-clickthroughs/