In reply to Scott Hartley.

If you follow that logic to its ultimate conclusion there would be no WordPress to begin with. I don't think there's any way embedding YT videos would ever happen in this plugin if for no better reason than that we do not have complete control over the source videos for all we know a video could be deleted and we'd have no way of knowing. Aside from the perhaps more important fact that that monetization you refer to would essentially be putting ads in the backend of wordpress which would never ever fly IMO. I could give more reasons on top of that but just those 2 right there are both complete deal killers.