I think YouTube has gotten smarter. Now its coming up with a pop-up saying that there are only a certain number of videos that I can watch until the video player is disabled. For some context, I am using Opera GX's built-in Add-blocker. Even more wierdly, it's not saying that it is blocking any trackers when I open the add-blocker icon in the top right of the url display. And yes, the add-blocker does say that it's blocked a certain number of adds on YouTube.
My guess is that it is tracking times between when it requests the video link and when it starts playing the video. I also wouldn't be surprised if some of YouTube's programmers are using Opera GX to try and reverse engineer your Add-Blocker. But I don't know if either one is true for sure. I just thought I'd let you know, since the add-blocker is one of the main reasons that I use opera GX.
Edit:
I've found a work-around. I'm using a free add blocker instead of Opera GX's Add-Blocker. It's managing to work so far. The pop-up still happens, but the adds are successfully skipped.
