i was thinking they might have some knowledge of even more intense data collection policies than google, but that might be giving them too much the benefit of the doubt

agreed, however both tiktok and grindr prove that the epstein oligarchy will pull every single lever at its disposal to ensure that chinese google will comply with their surveillance.

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.

The yt partnerprogramm has higher bar to entry