You can get it to display them in 4:3, if you go to details (alongside the episodes and suggested tabs) and uncheck "Remastered aspect ratio"

When the ad is playing, are you able to press up a couple of times and click on the little (i)? It might then go to a "why am I seeing this ad" page which you can then click ok on then click on don't watch this ad again and it will skip the ad. Doesn't work if you're casting a video from a phone, and it doesn't work on some channels.

It's the lack of oxygen up there too, and I don't think climate change will affect that

For 3. there's this app for Android which I've used before successfully FakeGPS

You can select a mock location app in the android developer options

My android phone can too, but it's optional.

That happens in the book.

Oh that's sad, it worked the last time I tried it but that was a few months ago.

I see nationalism more as "My country is better than your country"