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.
I call it “trickle down rhetoric.”
Essentially, people with more wealth are looked up to by people with less wealth. When a wealthy person says something, their slightly-less-wealthy peers are more likely to agree with them. When the slightly-less-wealthy peers say something, their slightly-less-wealthy peers are more likely to agree as well.
This trend keeps happening until you reach the bottom of the barrel, where just about everyone who can’t think for themselves (most people) are just parroting ideas that have been put there by those with more power and influence.
It’s how we can convince the working class to vote for Hillary, Trump, and Biden over Bernie.
It’s how people trust the suits on tv that have been wrong about everything, but sure, let’s let the establishment run the opposition to the president, see, it wasn’t their fault! It’s not like the voters made it clear they wouldn’t vote for their sell out. But since the suits said it was bigotry it’s ok to let the same people continue to run the opposition.