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Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global to challenge Youtube (www.engadget.com)
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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)

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[โ€“] CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Basically, spying is one of YouTube's most egregious problems, and one of the biggest reasons people like me want valid competition for it, and one of the biggest selling points of smaller competition like Peertube and Glomble. I don't see Bilibili offering that, but just the competition itself might give YouTube the kick up the arse it needs to respect its users.

I'm kidding myself, at this point it feels like YouTube would keep abusing its userbase even if it wasn't profitable, just for the sheer fun of it, but in an ideal world, this would solve a lot of problems.

[โ€“] eah@programming.dev 1 points 22 hours ago

Most users don't care about any of the spying. I'd expect a competitor of similar size to do the same. If there's any improvement competition could bring, it would be for the creators, giving them a larger slice of the ad revenue that otherwise goes to the owners of the platform. I guess that would mean better quality videos for users. Though, I don't think allowing anyone to make boatloads of money by getting millions of people to sit around for hours and hours watching videos has been a positive for humanity. Incentivizing creators with more money will just make this worse.