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?

  • hedders@fedia.io
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    22 hours ago

    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.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.world
      English
      1·
      19 hours ago

      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.