YouTube ads keep videos from playing

I've experienced this problem lately during the last few days or so:
I use Safari to go to the YouTube website on my iPad, and select a video. An ad starts playing, I skip it when/if it allows me to do so. Next, a Toyota ad starts playing (currently it's a 16 second ad of some goofy bearded guy cackling like a hyena as he rides in some type of Toyota car) then the video appears to load and be ready to play. I push play button, and the ads start playing again. This same situation happens on several different YouTube channels, not just one. This wasn't happening last week. Has anyone else had a problem similar to this one?

thank you, Lewis, for trying to help. It's not advertising that I'm trying to avoid as I am able to do that with the "reader view" up in the search bar. If I go straight to the "reader view" to read the article, the video that accompanies the article starts playing mid-way through the reading. I have to wait for the video to download, then stop it, then finally read the article. It is SO annoying. We are also limited on our data so I try not to watch any videos that I'm not interested in.
I'm not sure I've seen a "pop-up" type video, although I can view a running news video, for example, to the right when I'm reading CNN on the web. I wonder if this is using my data, as well? Thanks for any help!

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When I go to watch videos on Youtube in the most recent version of Firefox, the player treats them as though they were embedded; they do not begin playing automatically, there is no option for pop-out, and there is a "Watch this video on Youtube" button in the lower right-hand corner of the UI. Furthermore, when I try to play the video, I get a black screen and " An error occurred. Please try again later."
I should stress again that I am ''already'' on Youtube when this is happening. This is not a problem with embedded videos on other sites, this is actual videos on Youtube behaving like embedded videos.
I've already cleared the cache and cookies, disabled AdBlock, updated Flash, and updated Firefox; no joy.

This may be caused by a recent Flash 11.3 update.
See:
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/keep-flash-up-to-date-and-troubleshoot-problems
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/flash-crashes-or-does-not-load-firefox-13
*http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1018071?tstart=0
*http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2012/06/inside-flash-player-protected-mode-for-firefox.html

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The biggest clue, it seems, is that the stuttering does not occur if I click on the player window and move the window around. It plays just fine while I'm doing that, but the moment I stop moving the window, even with the mouse button still held down, the problem returns.
It happens with all video players, including Quicktime player and VLC.
It happens in all 5 logins.
It happens with all video file types.
It happens reading from both my internal drives and my external firewire drive.
I have 21 gigs free on my 160 gig HD. Even when I freed up more space it didn't help.
TechTool reports no problems with any subsystem (video, memory, etc.). I tried swapping RAM and even buying new RAM and still the problem occurs.
I tried repairing permissions and checking the drive for errors.
I've spent hours trying to find a solution to this problem. If you have any suggestions please let me know.
(Yes, I posted this problem a while back in a separate topic, but I got nowhere so I thought I'd try a different topic subject)
Thanks for any help.

Okay, some of these are not obviously third-party. Should I just remove them all?
Thanks.
/Library/QuickTime has
LAMEEncoder.component
TSCC.component
/Library/Internet Plug-ins has
AdobePDFViewer.plugin
DRM Plugin.bundle
Flash Player.plugin
flashplayer.xpt
JavaPluginCocoa.bundle
NP-PPC-Dir-Shockwave
nsIQTScriptablePlugin.xpt
Quartz Composer.webplugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.webplugin
RealPlayer Plugin
RealPlayer Plugin.xpt
VerifiedDownloadPlugin.plugin
Windows Media Plugin
~/Library/QuickTime is empty

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I have some menus with a bunch of moving video clips in drop zones in them. After some fiddling around with preferences, the clips are playing while working on the menus rather than just showing still images. I havent seen this behavior before.
Anyway, its making it excruciatingly, hair pullingly, jump out the windowly, eventually the app does not respondly slow to do any work in the app. Anyone know what stupid setting we must have changed?
thx

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