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I'm interested in the technical discussion but this post was also about a "bad feeling" a corrosive feeling that comes from not knowing if what you are looking at is real or not.
I think that problem there isn't so much technical as human.
No one has said "YouTube would never do such a thing without telling the creators and users!" Because no one has that kind of confidence in them. And no one should.