that makes sense. i kind of have the same viewpoint as a european, but i think it would be hard to get the average joe to move over if they're similar in data collection policies. i don't know what the average viewpoint is but what i hear often is that people here often think of china and usa as similar "devils" (note: i don't agree with this, i think china is a lot better). people are like "these massive countries are the same shit in a different package. america, china, both bad". so with that said, i think a lot of people would have issues moving over because they're already used to youtube and everyone's there anyway.

yeah it looks like they're just angling to be a reseller

Right, the whole advantage is that you amortize the work across a huge community which no single company has the resources to compete with.