YouTube Launching YouTube Shorts, A New TikTok-rival

YouTube Launching YouTube Shorts, A New TikTok-rival

YouTube video sharing platform reportedly is preparing a new application which is expected to be a competitor of video applications that are currently being loved by young people, TikTok.

Launch The Verge, this application will be named Shorts. According to reports, Shorts allow users to upload short videos accompanied by songs, similar to TikTok.

Later, the company is said to be utilizing a licensed music catalog that is on YouTube Music to support this application.

Currently, YouTube has not yet confirmed the matter of this rumor, but other leaks mention the application is ready to be revealed in the near future.

This YouTube step is said to be inseparable from the skyrocketing TikTok in recent years. Therefore, it makes sense if Google's services come with a similar concept.

Reports from the Annie App show that in the last two years, there was a 125 percent increase in users in TikTok. Not only that, but the application is also known to have been downloaded hundreds of millions of times.

If this news is true, it means that this is not the first time Google's service has developed features inspired by other services. Previously, this video sharing platform also released the Stories feature which is also on Instagram.

Not only YouTube, but Facebook is also reported to have developed a similar application TikTok. The social media giant even had time to test the application called Lasso.

TikTok Fundamental Issues

Although TikTok is a video sharing application which until now is still the choice of the younger generation to self-actualize, one of the technology leaders actually considers the platform with negative sentiments.

The CEO and co-founder of the Reddit news content and aggregation website, called TikTok a "fundamental parasite".

Launching TechCrunch, the CEO namely Steve Huffman referred this statement to the matter of privacy. Huffman said that the practice of tracking user devices based on fingerprint technology was problematic.

"Maybe I will regret this, but I can't even reach the level of thinking like TikTok," said Huffman who was a speaker at the Social 2030 venture capital conference.

"Because I see the application as a very fundamental parasite, which always listens, (as well as) the fingerprint technology they use is really scary, and I can't install applications like that on my smartphone," he continued.

"I am actively telling people, 'Don't install spyware on your cellphone,'" concluded Huffman.

The fingerprint technology referred to by Huffman is a combination of audio tracking and a browser to determine which users are watching and sharing videos on the application and on the web.

ByteDance as TikTok's parent company, claims that this fingerprint technology is used to identify malicious behavior from browsers, such as Malware.

However, malware actually does not infect TikTok from the browser even when the script from the fingerprint technology is turned off, citing Matthias Eberl's trial from Rufposten.

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