I've been trying to show that your stance is at odds with how the majority of the web consumes videos – disable Javascript and attempt to load a video from YouT

I've been trying to show that your stance is at odds with how the majority of the web consumes videos – disable Javascript and attempt to load a video from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Streamable, or any other major video hosting platform. I'm not clear why you feel CORS factors into this.