I just published an article on medium.

Topic: How to prevent a regular scam.

You can learn from reading it, and as well share it to other people for understanding on some few tricks black hat hackers use to exploit innocent people.

https://link.medium.com/hwfMEUMjo7

@frogstair I personally don't like it at all, at least for coding or techy articles, the quality over quantity difference is huge, the hyperbolic headlines are awful

@frogstair
I generally avoid information sources where contribution has a low barrier to entry.

Maybe you wanted to publish that on Twitter? Because hashtags on devrant are nonsense. Tags are separated by comma.

@frogstair "What does devrant think of medium?"

I prefer my articles like I prefer my steak... well done.

@VaderNT a steak well done? no way you are scaring me

@VaderNT I like me a medium well steak, juicy enough to enjoy, dead enough to not hear it moo.

Medium / dev.to are worthless to me, articles are not insightful, they are opinion polls with a lot of buzzwords for google to find, rarely do you find a gem of information in the rough sea.

@C0D4 that is fine, too.

I wonder if my "medium vs well done" pun isn't working or just isn't funny... 😥

> dev.to

Yeah the "to" stands for "trash only".

@VaderNT it's too early for most to get the pun 😅

Dev.TrashOpinions would work too.

The link without shortener / tracking link (is this really required?): https://medium.com/@awodirebabajide...

Okay, some feedback. First something subjectively stylistic :

>Good day guys, this is another article from me.
>Okay, let me rephrase, this is yet another medium to pass an information across, yeah let’s get into it.

Well, I am on medium (reading an article), and it is from you obviously (medium displays your name). Why do you give the most important part (the first few sentences) away for information I already know?

The thing with "Let me give you a formulated scenario" is... difficult to read on mobile. It is much too big, cursive, has a low contrast and questionable line breaks.

Now to the technical part: You emphasise the use if a secure connection. While it is not wrong by itself (using encryption is good), it simply does most to nothing against phishing.

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> Yes, the hacker can still intercept this connections using MITM attack ( man in the middle ), I am not ready to go into details with MITM, ...

For any non experienced user, this is confusing, and he may do a wrong conclusion ("encryption does not help me"). I would suggest something clearer like "encryption protects against evesdropping" (not much more).

> Use a VPN ( a virtual protocol network ), if you don’t trust the website e.g Nord VPN.

Ehm, sorry, but what? A VPN only partially protects me from evesdropping, and what does it have to do with not trusting the site?

> In conclusion, this is an article to help prevent common tricks used on random people, it covers just at least 50% of the 100%, so indirectly I’m telling you this is not all.

Besides the introduction, the conclusion is the second most important part (it is what a reader will remembered).
Of course this is an article about it (it stands in an article).

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At least repeat the key points ("check the URL, be cautious " ...). and don't create unnecessary ambiguity ("it covers just at least 50% of the 100%").

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Don't get this wrong, I wrote this feedback for helping youbto write better articles.

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@sbiewald Btw, I'm encountering that all the time with German native speakers: "cursive" is a false friend for "kursiv" because "cursive" rather means "in handwriting" (Schreibschrift) while "kursiv" means "in italics". That's why HTML has the <i> tag for italics.

And the "formulated scenario" part is neither in cursive nor in italics, it's a serif font with bad contrast. ^^

@sbiewald thanks for pointing out your obvious observations.
You took your time to go through it, thanks still

I saw this rant promoting an article, and thought 'clickbait.' Apparently it's true…

And .to = TrashOverflow?