The ability to embed videos is huge I agree. Especially if a YouTube channel is being used professionally. A large reach capability as well. A waste of energy and time otherwise in a case like that. This whole thing is such a mess and is taking so much power away from the people to do their thing in peace.

I really miss being able to embed my videos. I kept the videos I had loaded and just made them all unlisted for this reason. I can still embed those if I want to. I guess I'm lucky in that I already stopped unloading new videos so I was already weaning off of YouTube. There are no alternatives (yet) that compare to YouTube. In time I hope there will be but yeah, the ultimate goal is to completely control all posts video and otherwise on the internet as a whole and it has nothing to do with kids and kid safety. That is a mask. YouTube already has YouTube kids. It's up to the parents to keep kids there. This is a multi-layered push towards China level control. Why not just stop all the data mining? End of problem, right? I watch what they do not just what they say and I agree with you......this is all going to hurt a lot of people who are just trying to be a little financially free. I guess that too will no longer be allowed.