5 Great YouTube Alternatives
16 Jul
Man my back hurts as hell. I got jumped by ninjas. Nah I’m just joking. I don’t know why it hurts. Well lets go on a blogging rampage now. Okay so there’s been a big privacy issue. Google is handing over all its YouTube user datas over to Viacom. The user data initially contained IP addresses, usernames and the videos viewed. Now both sides (Google & Viacom) have agreed to anonymize the personally identifiable data.
Well the question is should we use continue to use YouTube. We don’t know what’s coming up next. And why the fuck was Google keeping all these information? Fucking fags. Is there anything called privacy? OMFG! 12 terabytes of user data.
The choice is yours. I personally would now like to stay away from YouTube. And YouTube isn’t even that great. The video quality is “okay”. Like its pretty good but on full screen it sucks ass. So I’m gonna list 5 Great YouTube alternatives (in random order) and you could check them out if you care about your privacy.
1. MEGAVIDEO
This site is like trying to compete with YouTube so bad that they allow you to convert YouTube videos to MEGAVIDEO in a snap. Someone’s desperate, huh? But that’s good for you since you can easily transfer your videos over to them. Video quality isn’t that bad too. I would say that its a bit better than YouTube and the fullscreen has fairly good quality too (unlike YouTube).
2. Veoh
Oh I just love the video quality. Man this video sharing site is like Stage6. But even better because the videos load way faster. Good quality + Fast loading = AWESOME! But there is a problem. Veoh blocked off over 160 countries. So that means Veoh is only good if you don’t care about going globally.
3. Vimeo
This is the site with 100% HD video quality. Check it out. And the site just looks amazing. YouTube looks a bit ugly (to be honest) or at least compared to Vimeo. Hmm I don’t have anything else on this site. Okay I’ll just move on to the next one.
4. Dailymotion
Dailymotion used to be pretty popular but I don’t know why it died. It had the best video quality back then (when video sharing sites were just getting popular) and it still has. Oh the video quality has actually improved a bit more. Nice!
5. Metacafe
Great quality once again. Hmm you know what I noticed? Most video sharing sites have fairly good quality to really good quality video streaming. Well except for YouTube though. Its still got its crappy ass “okay” quality. Metacafe is also known for its hilarious videos.
UPDATE: Few other sites
These are other great video sharing sites that I forgot to mention. Thanks to the readers for telling me about them. I’ll just quickly list them down.
- Break.com – Best for funny videos.
- Viddler.com – Home to some video bloggers.
- blip.tv – No limit on the video size and also shares revenue.
And that’s my list. New video sharing sites are popping up every day and there’s a lot of competition going on. Which one you would choose depends on you (of course). I’m not too sure myself either. I think I would probably choose Vimeo for its awesome quality.
If you know about a great video sharing site then please do tell us about it by dropping a comment. Oh and I forgot to mention that Viacom wanted to sue the users who uploaded and watched copyrighted material personally. Crazy shit, huh?
