Special:Badtitle/NS90:User talk:QuestionableSanity/why you are randomly removing illustrations?/reply (2)

My setup is "YouTube links on 3rd party sites are suppressed by default because I don't care for sudden massive slowdowns from multiple stupid autostarting embeds on forums, nor for Google tracking".

You for some reason seem to assume embedding is automatically the greatest idea since baking cakes. It so much not so that it's hard to guess where such a notion comes from.

Non-autostarting embedded player shows a preview frame, usually very non-indicative. Like in this case. Even if this was the same frame, an embedded player that needs to be clicked adds nothing an image that needs to be clicked doesn't have, but it has overlay controls and border, while a static picture is clean. While autostarting embeds must die because they run away on their own, unless one clicks on the page just to see its embedded video, so they agressively consume resources while adding mostly annoyance.

That's before problems specifically with youtube, which are many, but mostly boil down to "it's google in sheep's skin" and "ludicrous content removal policies".