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You tube is about the only place I go for videos. I pay $10 a month for the ad-free version called Red Tube. Well worth it, imo.

Save your money and just install a free Youtube ad blocker widely available. I use Adblock Plus which stops or inhibits ads on all webpages. Some sites want me to unblock their ads so I have to decide whether that website is important enough for me to allow their ads. Most the time it isn't; at least to me.

Not being in front of this Win 10 system, I can't be sure, but it acts like you have a script blocker installed which is a very good thing. Scripts are how websites force us to watch or block various things when we land on that page. Some even carry viruses which can infect our computer operating systems. Some pay sites use a script called jquery or some other verification script to verify you're a paid member so you can view their site. By blocking that script they sometimes allow you to view it because it can't confirm or deny it so it errs on the side of caution if that's how it was set up. It's different for every site.

You need to find the script blocker, if there is one, and learn how to okay certain scripts. Over time the system becomes trained to run only what you want it to. I use NoScript and back up the settings from time to time so if I have to rebuild another system or I just add a new computer; I can transfer the settings of what I have already okay'd so I don't have to start all over again.

I recently bought a second refurbished system and a new 1 TB hard drive then cloned my hard drive so I now have a primary system that will eventually fail or break in some way so all I have to do is move the wires from the back of the primary system to the back up system and continue on. It won't be up to the minute but since I back up the data once a month or so; It'll be close once I download the latest data from the back up. Everyone should back up their data with an external hard drive on a regular basis to minimize data loss in the event the hard drive fails.

The new Solid State Drives (SSD) are much faster than the regular Hard Drives (HDD) but are also more expensive of course. I'm still using the old HDD's on my systems. I'm afraid of becoming spoiled with the high speed SSD. We humans think really slow compared to most computers anyway so at some point it's just silly for the system to go faster for home use IMHO.

I run FF, Ghostery, and the No Script, The combination does a great job and even gets past paywalls. I like that Noscript lists all the different individual scripts it blocked and lets you temporarily/permanently turn on only what you really can’t live without on a page. It only breaks a page about 5% of the time and it is usually just the first item in the list, which is the base java. Videos have to be turned on, but they are usually in the list as an embedded API/CDN service from youtube/vimeo that can be turned on permanently.