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reading the comments, probably because it is not what the title promises.

Yeah, I see. I still think it's a bit harsh, especially since it kinda depends on how you interpret it here (i.e. what is "Google search"? The frontend or the backend? etc.) and it was made in good faith after all.

This reminds me of a passage in the "Waterfox joins System1" blog post[1] where the maintainer of Waterfox goes into how they've recieved harrassment because some people felt Waterfox wasn't up to their standards in terms of privacy.

[1] https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-has-joined-system1/

> reading the comments, probably because it is not what the title promises.

If that were the case, admins would simply change the title.

I suspect the reason is that it's a tool that is designed to violate a specific site's TOS, which I think this tool does.

That admins could change the title doesn't mean users don't feel mislead and flag in the mean time.

I have observed that when I flag a title it is not publicly indicated to be flagged.

It's not a binary. There's a threshold of flags after which it is shown and a higher one after which it gets killed, scaled by other activity on the submission (and possibly some other internal factors, the details aren't really documented).

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