I’m trying to optimize my setup to deal with YouTube’s recent anti-adblock measures, and I heard that transitioning everything over to ‘IPV6’ is much better. It’s a completely different type of internet protocol that the ad servers can’t track as easily.
My question is twofold: First, is there actual validity to the claim that this IPV6 system handles data packets in a way that inherently disrupts YouTube’s advertising scripts? And second, how exactly does a layman go about activating this? Do I need to contact my Internet Service Provider to have them upgrade my line, or is this something I can manually configure within Windows control panel?
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are you having issues with youtube rn? everything’s been fine for me recently. firefox+ublock origin (web) or pipepipe (android).
Never heard of IPV6 affecting what websites can and can’t do, sounds wrong to me.
How to get it depends entirely on your ISP. Some ISPs provide 4 and 6, one or the other being the default, some ISPs don’t have 6 at all. If your ISP already provides it then first you would need a compatible router, Windows should adjust automatically.
In theory if every device in your network is routed to the outside world they could say “fuck this guy in particular”
But idk why they’d bother doing that. They’d detect the blocking all the same and probably not care about IP.
That’s not a thing. IPv6 is simply an expansion of the IP addressing protocol that expands the subnet space to accommodate more addresses. It doesn’t functionally alter the way traffic is handled over TCP/IP.
Question one: No.
Question two: Depends on your ISP. Ask them. No line upgrade is required, but they may need to enable it and/or have you make changes at your router.
Yea. The first part is absolutely false. Google is one of the big metrics for IPv6 usage so them having such a glaring hole in their user tracking makes no sense.
Often there’s an option in the modem for ipv6 and it’s usually already activated anyway. Shouldn’t matter for adblocking though. But what’s YouTube doing? I didn’t notice any anti-adblocking stuff going on recently
define recent? ublock (lite) works fine afaik
