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.
This one big time.
It’s anecdotal but like 90% of my psychological torment disappeared overnight when I quit a horrible job I’d been trapped in for 8 years.
A lot of recovery work I’m doing is trying to undo all that. It made me insufferably cynical, angry, depressed, anxiety to 11. But it paid bills.
The other 10% is ADHD. Society also punishes that one in fun ways. (And has now turned it into yet another marketing trend. Hooray.)
But being denied free will to act in the world and determine one’s own course is damaging to the human psyche. Being coerced into doing something stupidly pointless on top of that, for little in return, is even more damaging still.