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?

  • alakey@piefed.social
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    3 months ago

    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.