Use Chrome or Firefox with Ghostery and uBlock Origin plugins to prevent most tracking and block adds. Also, you might need to turn hardware acceleration off to get some multimedia content to play.
http://lifehacker.com/disable-firefoxs-hardware-acceleration-to-fix-slowness-749344037
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/271264-chrome-gpu-hardware-acceleration-turn-off.html
I use Firefox with noScript, AdBlockPlus, CookieMonster, and Ghostery, thank you very much. I know how to remove the garbage I don’t want, and that’s the reason I can’t watch it.
I’m not turning off the safeguards to watch a video. That asinine.