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Incentives are misaligned here. Regardless of reporting, YouTube will likely continue to prioritize engaging title/thumbnail combinations because they prioritize engagement.

A third-party database that provides descriptive titles does not have this incentive, but instead benefits from being qualitatively distinct from the OG YouTube experience. (Otherwise, why would people use the extension?)



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