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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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.
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.
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.
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
