Do servers handling internet traffic think I'm a bot because I halted some OS background services?

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David A86512

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About 2 weeks ago I starting forcefully halting some of my operating system's background services, such as Google Update Helper, in an attempt to optimize my PC. Now, YouTube videos don't buffer and some other sites and services are also loading at crawl speeds. Checking my Outlook email can take 10 minutes. My Steam client alerted me I needed to re-install missing software to authenticate me and for anti-cheat purposes. I'm wondering if by stopping some OS background services I blacklisted myself as a bot or hacker? The YouTube issue does not persist if I log out of my gmail. W

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