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Why not?
Because of the CORS settings on Google's servers would tell your browser to not go forward with the request. There are two ways it could eventually be possible:
I haven't checked the CORS headers for YouTube videos but wouldn't access have to be fairly open to allow embedded videos to work?
For that they use iframes, which have a different security system.