The biggest obstacle to a YouTube competitor is that YouTube themselves can barely turn a profit. The operating costs are ginormous, beyond what most people realise.

Given the prevalence of bots and attempts to pass off fake data as real though, is there still any way to reliably differentiate good data from bad?

Guess it’s about time for Google to kill the project, then.

I wonder who could have foreseen the porn ban leading to this… Oh, wait.

Do share the alternative with us, that’s universally supported and not owned by a corporation.