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.
That’s not even hard to prove. On one of my accounts, they’ve been popping up little notifications oh-so-innocently asking the user if they’re having problems. They contain a link telling the user to turn off their ad-blocker or whatever other browser add-ons might be interfering with Google’s ad delivery platform. I paraphrase slightly, but it’s what they mean.
But to answer the question, while remaining somewhat vague: I know of someone who is said to have died of a specific ailment, but they’d hit very hard times and were of a religion where taking one’s own life is, or was, considered incredibly taboo. My lurking suspicion is that they might have done the unthinkable and it was covered up for the sake of appearances.
That’s not something I think I’d ever be able to prove and trying would cause more harm than good.