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Let the content Cold War commence!
Noooooo
I get all my movies on there and now they’re gonna start copy striking it
Have you seen the new show? It’s on Tubu. It’s literally on Heebee. It’s on Poodee with ads. It’s literally on Dippy. You can probably find it on Weeno. Dude it’s on Gumpy. It’s a Pheebo original. It’s on bilibili. You can watch it on bilibili. You can go to bilibili and watch it. Log onto bilibili right now. Go to bilibili. Dive into bilibili. You can bilibili it. It’s on bilibili. bilibili has it for you. bilibili has it for you.
Just going to get targeted and banned like tiktok or at least shaken down if it becomes at all popular.
Identity verification for video app is crazy
They need to know if they can target you with the gambling ads for children or the gambling ads for adults
The majority of chinese apps require identity verification (either with a passport or just a chinese phone number). Partly to keep out foreigners, but more to make it so people don’t use anonymity online to do crimes and threaten people. Your online identity is tied to your real life identity for authorities, even if not always for other users.
Whether or not you agree with that, it’s just…standard practice already in China.
Gonna need some suggestions for good stuff to watch on here. Please, smack me with your bilibili shmeat
How long before the US forces bilibili to sell
Until it’s ready to become yet another propaganda Special Purpose Entity.
Chinese YouTube
join DiscordSlop
Slop, China
Posting this with only a lil bit of irony
This but unironically.
China, Gachimuchi, Capeshit, Slop
(cw horni)Video is age restricted, can’t watch it (or even know what the title is) without an account. If only I could sign up without identity verification…
♂️ ASS. WE. CAN. ♂️
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
does it have a webpage?
https://www.bilibili.tv/en I think it’s this
My god it’s full of piracy (positive connotation)
它们在害怕我们！！！
Shitposting with Chinese Characteristics
Better than YT (of course), but they’re still a commercial corporation and bound to enshittify. PeerTube FTW.
Do we have any examples of Chinese tech enshittification yet? If there are no examples I’m not willing to agree with “bound to enshittify”. Chinese companies are not the same as western companies when every single one of them above a certain size has a CPC branch within it, this by itself makes them all organisationally different and we can’t say for certain they’ll follow the same outcomes.
BambuLab
Was it ever not shit? Them being shady about the Bambu studio licensing isn’t new exactly.
It’s not exactly a secret that China’s Social Sciences are lagging behind their Engineering projects. There’s a lot of attempts to manipulate users to buy more, you download AliExpress and they let you play minigames to earn sales coupons for such a small discount, which is not really a discount it’s just a useless time waster to obviously get you addicted to the app. The people who made these design choices obviously know what they’re doing and I hope they suffer consequences for what they’ve done.
Don’t get me wrong, this is not like exclusively super bad stuff or like significantly worse than what Western Capital does, but it’s still harmful practices.
The only one that worked on me is when you used to get ranks on AliExpress. The fake discounts are just annoying, just show me the price I’m going to pay.
AliExpress added Israeli age verification
And Bilibili keeps asking me to install the app which YouTube doesn’t.
Wait what on? I’ve never been asked for my identification
I think it’s just on sex toys and some fetish stuff now. But for a while it was on knifes too.
Might be regional too
Ok, that’s fair, enshittification is perhaps the wrong term here because it describes a process inherent to capitalism specifically. However, Chinese tech companies have been doing some bad stuff more generally. Perhaps not as bad as western counterparts, but still. Just from ones I personally encountered: TikTok is extremely addictive, wechat is a privacy nightmare, DJI is very anti-consumer requiring activation via an Android app and account for its cameras. Xiaomi is its own can of worms: HyperOS has ads baked-in to it, and as far as I could tell requires a Xiaomi account to change the ringtone on your own phone (WTF?); the robot vacuums require an account and a cloud connection to work; etc.
Hell, even bilibili is already full of ads if you visit it without an adblocker.
Buying shit on alibaba or temu can be a nightmare with false advertising and dark patterns. I feel like it’s gotten worse.
I think enshittification applies mainly to tech products that are usually free services that make their money from data or ads rather than just a shopping market? Not saying it hasn’t gotten worse but seems like a different thing?
Yeah you’re probably right. I was using it in the sense that everything gets worse under capitalism.
If you count being forced to be sold to a western country to operate in that country like happened with tiktok as enshittification so you have this one.(I actually don’t even know if they got worse since I never used)
Definitely counts as enshittification, tiktok is considerably worse now. But it’s notable that it’s the sale of the company OUT of China that results in it. Would be quite interesting to see if this happens with anything that’s sold in future internally in China. I’m not even sure if such a sale would be accepted or go through, what barriers would happen internally with the structure etc.
Downloading it now
How do I say “hell yeah” in Chinese?
太棒了 means like ‘so great’
这是我人生中一段非常中国的时光。
Hell yeah. Nice
