Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global - Engadget
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The platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website.

The China-centric video sharing platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website – with no identity verification (for now at least)

  • EliteCloneMike@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Not terribly interested in this video platform as I also don’t use YouTube. I really hope Google gets broken up and I don’t like them harvesting my data and selling it to the US Government any more than I like companies like Bytedance selling my data to the Chinese Government. I am in the US and think we should have established data privacy and data protection laws long before things got to the point they have gotten too.

    • Imhotep@feddit.frFrançais
      2·
      1 month ago

      How do you do that? I would love to be able to avoid YouTube. I could go without the entertainment part of it, sure. But no more tutorials would already be a big pain. And then there are the news sites with embedded videos. Even the state uses it.

      YouTube has single handedly almost nullified my degoogling project

      • EliteCloneMike@lemmy.zipEnglish
        0·
        1 month ago

        If I have a project, I often prefer to read up on how to accomplish the task, such as going to blog posts or getting to the source documentation. If that is not possible, I use yewtu.be (it can be slow to load just FYI). There is also PeerTube, but it doesn’t have as much content. Lastly, there is FreeTube, which is built on YouTubes API and gives them revenue in some way, but doesn’t have ads. It doesn’t allow Google to learn your behavior or target you for ads. I also use a VPN (with DNS protection enabled) when loading anything. If you’re degoogling (as I and many have done), one other item I hear people say they have difficulty dropping is Google Maps. I know you didn’t ask about it, but just to add, other options exist, such as Open Street Maps (OSM), Organic Maps, CoMaps, Magic Earth (I think may be built on Google Maps API, but not entirely sure), and Kagi (I’m fairly sure it uses Apple Maps and Google Maps API). Also, I have just started looking into FlockHopper, but I’m not sure what it is built on, I think OSM and MapBox (not sure if I have that right), but I’m not sure. Also MapQuest still exists.

        • Imhotep@feddit.frEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          Youtube is about the last Alphabet service I knowingly use (except when someone shares a google doc).
          I thought you meant no Youtube at all. I use Freetube and Newpipe almost exclusively.
          Peertube too, when the instance I use to follow channels works (the two previous ones closed). It’s a pain to subscribe to stuff. Maybe with RSS feeds…

          edit: I’ve been subscribed to Kagi for a while too, maybe going two years. Love it. Wish it was cheaper

          I really liked Qwant maps, a good use of OSM, but the idiots closed it…