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- Sounds like PH is probably under investigation from higher authorities, is what I think. The Youtube-like nature of it, previously, didn't necessarily make it any more or less nasty than any other porn site. It's PORN fer chrissakes. (LOL, one of the comments in that NY Times opinion piece says that PH tries to market itself as the "cheery face" of smut ... obviously another article-for-scare in which the author feels free to make assumptions which just can't be denied, like all the other porn-bashing and escort-bashing and strip-club-bashing articles that come out written by someone who hasn't ever written about the adult industries ever before and therefore is quite comfortable working only within puritanical anti-adult-industry assumptions.)
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- Well, if you're willing to inform strangers about your past subscription to Pornhub and your current complaints about not getting what you paid for, then just tell your credit-card provider that the purchase price did not provide you with the product which was described. You get your money. That's what credit cards are for. We pay with credit cards, and not with mere cash, IN ORDER THAT the merchant can be held to some degree of accountability. Generally you have three months from the time the charge appeared on your bill. If it's a recurring monthly charge, you'll be able to get back each individual month's worth of payment, as long as the payment isn't more than three months old at the time when you first ask for it to be returned.
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- you can use any of a number of stream-capture add-ons, websites, and so forth, to get a full-force copy of anything that comes into your computer if you just bother to Google up how to do it. It's not difficult. YouTube-DL is one, as mentioned; VideoDownLoadHelper is a Firefox add-on I often use; Chrome has its own suite of video-capture utilities. The idea is utterly laughable, that somehow the owner(s) of the Pornhub servers have any say at all in what does or does not get downloaded. Kind of like the US Post Office demanding that people not use plastic letter-openers for anything they deliver to anyone's mailbox, only metal letter-openers allowed. WTF man, it came into my house, once it's in here I do with it what I want to do, no matter who put it through the damn mail slot.
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- Lots of my favorite PMVs have disappeared, thousands of them. I can't imagine that they paid a few wankers to go through all gazillion of their videos and pick which ones do, or do not, have child-trafficking possibilities in them. Did they just leave 1/10th of their former collection randomly? Did they have some kind of tag-me-tag-you crowd-source going on? Did they delete anything from anyone who had not paid them money? Or maybe they deleted anything from anyone who was not one of their six or ten favorite porn-provider professional studios? Or what? How did they decide? Not only, (a) what criteria did they use to decide?, but also (b) in what manner and with what logistical tactics did they apply those criteria? For item (b) it seems to me, the logistics would probably have been rather burdensome. They had thousands of videos from thousands of sources; kaboom they've just magically removed exactly the right ones to remove, and kept the right ones to keep? No way it was that accurate a cull ... something must have been mislaid on one side or the other, I think.
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- well, different regions and nations have different arrangements. The USA's rules are more arcane and backwards (historically) than those of the European Union, partly because the USA's Congress wrote some legislation that tried to be forward-looking during the late 1980s and early 1990s but then they haven't revisited it and of course the predictions about technological change turned out to be entirely wrong, partly because what rules for Microsoft and for Disney also rules for Pornhub, partly because the USA generally (wrongly) assumes it's the biggest gorilla in the room and therefore demands that the rest of the monkeys follow the USA's lead. But that's about what the rules are; the enforcement is another question, and is often more strict in more wealthy countries (where they have more resources to put to it) even if the rules are less draconian (f.e. ANY porn trafficking in Singapore is seriously punished; but they don't generally try to catch you watching it, there). The intersections of morality, puritanical controllers, social mores, rules and their enforcement, current and outdated laws, and other related concepts, all criss-cross in many problematic ways over the notion of pornography. Nobody here is a lawyer. The USA's First Amendment protects free speech and publication, generally including porn (and, somehow, strip-club dancing has been held to be "self-expression" of the protected sort, as well ... so Barbie and Dusty can continue to shimmy and disrobe, as long as they're doing so with the intent to express a thought or two, like, "I look hot, don't I? Vote Biden. How do you like my tits? Vote Biden." I just don't get it.) Other nations don't necessarily have the same protections with the same regimes of coverage or enforcement. But the internet goes everywhere.
I mean only 11.000.000 videos to screen how long could that take? 
