Be aware that if you embed YouTube videos on your site, they may well contain ads from some organisations you may find highly objectionable, and you will not get any ad revenue even from ones you approve of. For this reason, I nearly always just provide a link to the video rather than embedding a player. If post a YouTube video, YouTube may superimpose ads on top of it that are in direct contradiction to the spirit of your video. Your enemies use your work to spread their FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt).
YouTube drives webmasters crazy who have to maintain links to YouTube videos on their sites. YouTube has a big problem with people submitting duplicates. The YouTube staff gradually prune them back, after the fact, but if you were unlucky enough to bookmark or create a link to the wrong duplicate, the link will break leaving no record of what used to be there. There is no redirection (technically a HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) 303 permanent redirect) to the master copy of the duplicate they decided to keep. Further, if the person who uploaded the video drops it, makes it private, or closes his account, all his material is lost. YouTube treats all that material as his private property. Then all bookmarks and links to it stop working until somebody who has an offline copy uploads it again. But all commentary is lost and Google directs people mainly to dead duplicates.
Google owns YouTube, so surely they can better coordinate their efforts! When YouTube removes a duplicate, Google should update its spidering to point to the designated master copy immediately, not wait for an infrequent spider. Public videos should not be removable by private individuals, just the references to them removed from their accounts. People with bookmarks and links should be unaffected. People uploading videos should designate them personal or public, and that way duplicates can be prevented before they occur.
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