Welp, I figured out my issue with the weird display and not being able to watch embedded videos.

It was my VPN running automatically, and not when I needed it to watch foreign news broadcasts.

Nord now turns on automatically, and turns on three "Threat protocols". At least I can turn off those threat protocols, but Nord activates and sends my IP to some other state,

https://ipleak.net/

I used IPleak to figure that out. Now I need to find a way to keep Nord from taking over and log out of it unless I want it. It used to work that way. If I can't log out, I will install it.

I already have all the threat protections on my system I need.