I’m under the impression that Google deliberately hinders their YouTube platform just because you have ad-blockers. With videos taking time to buffer, seems to signal this, because it almost makes up nearly the amount of time for when ads take if you had to watch them. So since you’re ad-blocking and they don’t like that, they’ll make your experience miserable until you want to pay their service or not use ad-block.
DuckDuckGo is actually a honeypot for the NSA that significantly reduces the amount of data they need to process by virtue of its advertised use case.
Think about it. Everytime some dumb criminal gets caught, there’s always a report about them searching up how to do the crime on Google, which the police collects as part of their investigation.
A “smart” criminal/terrorist would then avoid common search engines and would opt for DDO since they don’t share or collect search data.
DDO just doesn’t share that data with advertisers, trackers, and regular police/FBI like how other search engines do, but they do share it with the NSA just like every other search engine did via PRISM.
NSA uses the data for whatever purpose and helps to ensure DDO’s security. DDO also never compromises on sharing its data to anyone except the NSA to maintain an image of security and privacy to would be criminals.