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.
The Taliban became popular because they outlawed Bacha Bazi and other ludicrous acts committed by the criminally insane warlords which became the Northern Alliance which became the Afghanistan Government until they were yet again toppled by the same Taliban after the US left.