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)

  • CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    I’ve heard of Billibilli. It’s great for pirated films and TV shows that you can’t get anywhere else.

    I don’t really trust it to be much better at respecting privacy than YouTube, but at this point, I’d be surprised if it was any worse, and YouTube has been getting worse for lack of competition for over a decade now

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      19 days ago

      I feel like we’re entering a world where you have competing surveillance states, and citizens from either would be behooved to use technology from the other. For the simple fact that these two states don’t cooperate, using the other sides technology is inherently safer. They have far fewer manners of or financial interests in fucking you.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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        19 days ago

        Yeah. At this point as an American I’m way less worried about in the Chinese government tracking me than I am with the US government. The Chinese government is evil, but I don’t live in China.

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          19 days ago

          Yes but never forget they aren’t above building profiles on people and selling them. The US government regularly buys these sort of data packages as a loophole to bypass constitutional protections against search and seizures.

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        19 days ago

        Yep, this is why my security cameras are all from Chinese companies. Though I guess the NSA still owns the Wifi lol

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      18 days ago

      I suspect like most things in China, as long as you aren’t Picking quarrels and provoking trouble you will be able to slag off the US all you want. But don’t you dare criticize the CCP, because apparently that hurts the feelings of all the people and they already suffer enough under Xinnie the pooh’s iron dick