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>isn't even popular enough to refer to it by name,

The page title is "How Showmax, an African streaming service, dethroned Netflix", and the name of the service is also the very first word of the subtitle on the page. It is also referred to by name several other times throughout the article.

>it has not dethroned Netflix

If you go by subscriber count, which is a bit more robust than your criteria, it has.

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No, the page title is "How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix." And that was also the title posted here originally.

Also, Showmax most definitely does not have more subscribers than Netflix. That is only true if you limit to a specific geographic region. But if you don't state as much in the title, you are lying by omission.

Open up the page, then mouse over the tab to read the page title. The page title is "How Showmax, an African streaming service, dethroned Netflix - Rest of World".

You can also press F12, and in the <head> section, read what is written in between <title> and </title>, which is what I quoted above.

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