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TikTok
TikTok, known in mainland China, Macau, and Hong Kong as Douyin (), is a social media and short-form online video platform. It hosts user-submitted videos, which range in duration from three seconds to 60 minutes. It can be accessed through a mobile app or through its website.
OnlyFans
OnlyFans is an Internet content paid subscription service based in London, England. The service is widely known for its popularity with pornographers, although it also hosts other content creators including athletes, musicians, and comedians.
Blue Whale Hoax
urban legend about the existence of a game on the Russophonic internet that allegedly incites teenagers to commit suicide
Gab
American alt-tech social media service
Funimation
Funimation was an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. Launched in 2016, the service was one of the leading distributors of anime and other foreign entertainment properties in North America. It streamed popular series, such as Dragon Ball, One Piece, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, YuYu Hakusho, My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan, Fairy Tail, Black Clover, Fruits Basket, Assassination Classroom and Tokyo Ghoul among many others. The service and its parent company were acquired by Sony, who ran the service through Sony Pictures Entertainment from 2017 to 2019 and
Zcash
Zcash is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency which features an encrypted ledger using zero-knowledge proofs.
Accelerated Mobile Pages
website publishing technology developed by Google
Tay
chatterbot made by Microsoft
Mixer
live streaming video platform owned by Microsoft
Lingua Libre
Words pronunciation and signs recording tool by Wikimedians
5-Minute Crafts
YouTube channel
Microsoft Academic
former online bibliographic database, developed by Microsoft Research, shut down in 2022
Q76564381
Stripchat is an adult website and social network featuring free live-streamed webcam performances, often including nudity and sexual activity, through traditional, virtual reality, and mobile broadcasts.
Firo
cryptocurrency
Davar
Davar (, lit. Speech, Word) was a Hebrew-language daily newspaper published in the British Mandate of Palestine and Israel between 1925 and May 1996. A similarly named website was launched in 2016, under the name Davar Rishon as an online outlet by the Histadrut.
Radio Garden
website/app that allows searching for and listening to radio stations (requires Internet access)
Crypto.com
Crypto.com is a cryptocurrency exchange company based in Singapore that offers various financial services, including an app, exchange, and noncustodial DeFi wallet, NFT marketplace, and direct payment service in cryptocurrency. As of June 2023, the company reportedly had 100 million customers and 4,000 employees.
Miitomo
Miitomo was a freemium social networking mobile app developed by Nintendo for iOS and Android devices. The app, Nintendo's first, allowed users to converse with friends by answering various questions, and featured Twitter and Facebook integration. The app was released in March 2016 for iOS and two months later for Android, launching alongside their My Nintendo service. Despite initially being a critical and commercial success, with over ten million downloads worldwide a month after release, its popularity dwindled soon after and it was ultimately discontinued on May 9, 2018.
.art
sponsored top-level Internet domain
Chalo Chatu
free online encyclopedia about Zambia
funk
German VOD platform jointly operated by ARD & ZDF
.istanbul
.istanbul and .ist are approved top level domains (TLD) for the Internet. It is a community-based sponsored top-level domain by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and subsidiary Medya A.Ş. According to the Medya A.Ş., .istanbul will improve awareness on Istanbul's historical heritage and help economic growth by allowing unlimited and open registration of the names.
Voot
Voot was an Indian subscription video-on-demand and over-the-top streaming service owned by Viacom18, a joint venture between Reliance Industries, Network18. The service was initially launched on 4 May 2016. It initially launched as an advertising-supported service, before introducing a subscription tier in 2020 under the Voot Select banner.
Yahoo! Screen
On-demand streaming service for TV shows, movies, webisodes and other new media.
Knowledge Engine
search engine
The Athletic
subscription-based sports news website
The Babylon Bee
satirical website
Sarahah
Sarahah () was a Saudi Arabian social networking service for providing constructive feedback. In Arabic, sarahah means "frankness" or "honesty".
Zo
artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Microsoft
GagaOOLala
GagaOOLala is a Taiwan-based worldwide subscription video on demand service, specializing in uncensored LGBTQ-related films, LGBTQ TV films & LGBTQ TV drama series. It has partnered with Japanese-based Line TV, initially in Thailand, and then across Asia, to provide the service with GagaOOLala-made TV series. GagaOOLala is owned by Portico Media, whose also carried pay TV channels for Taiwan cable TV provider along with Chunghwa Telecom's MOD platform.
Hello
online social network
.store
.store is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) of the Domain Name System (DNS) used in the Internet. It was the first domain extension to be launched specifically for ecommerce.
Houseparty
social networking app
Yape
Peruvian financial technology service
Software Heritage
infrastructure supported by INRIA and UNESCO; its 3 core missions are: to collect, preserve and share the source code of publicly available software.
SiIvaGunner
SiIvaGunner (), formerly GiIvaSunner (), is a comedic musical collective based mostly around bait-and-switch YouTube videos claiming to be "high quality rips" of video game music that are in reality remixes, parodies, and/or mashups, often incorporating Internet memes and popular music.
FMovies
FMovies was a series of file streaming websites that hosted links and embedded videos, allowing users to stream or download movies for free. The sites had been subject to legal action in various jurisdictions on grounds of copyright infringement and piracy. In August 2024, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment announced that the site was shut down by Vietnamese authorities. The site was receiving billions of views a year at its peak.
Triller TV
American combat sports streaming service
Abema
(formerly known as ) is a Japanese streaming video service owned and operated by AbemaTV, Inc., a joint venture between the internet company CyberAgent and the broadcaster TV Asahi. Launched in April 2016, the platform distinguishes itself from traditional video-on-demand (VOD) services by functioning primarily as a free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) network. It offers multiple real-time linear channels alongside a premium on-demand subscription tier and pay-per-view (PPV) capabilities.
Womad
South Korean website
The Ringer
American sports and pop culture website
DirecTV Stream
streaming pay TV service provider
Lifewire
Lifewire is a technology information and advice website. The website's owner is Dotdash Meredith, originally About.com, which launched Lifewire in 2016 as one of its spin-off vertical sites.
Tata Cliq
Indian Ecommerce. Venture of Tata Group
Childs Play
child pornography website later operated by Australian police as a sting operation
Spoon
social digital audio live streaming
actualite.cd
Actualite.cd is a Congolese media website specializing in political, security and economic information. It was launched in 2016 as part of Groupe Next Corp.
Strana.ua
Strana.ua is a Ukrainian online newspaper launched on 16 February 2016. It was founded by journalist Igor Guzhva, and is one of the most popular Ukrainian online media, being one of the top 5 most visited online newspapers in Ukraine.
LIHKG Forum
LIHKG () is a multi-category forum website based in Hong Kong. The website has gained popularity since the launch in 2016, and is often referred to as the Hong Kong version of Reddit.
WATCHA
Watcha () is a South Korean software company and subscription video on-demand, over-the-top service. Watcha distributes television series, specials, variety shows, films, documentaries, animations, and sports. Watcha began its original webtoon service in the second half of 2022.