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asklemmy·Ask LemmybyHirohito

Some say tech peaked in 2013 in terms of pre-enshitification. What year do you think it peaked and why?

EDIT: Enshittification, also known as platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to both users and business customers to maximize short-term profits for shareholders.

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nostupidquestions·No Stupid QuestionsbyHirohito

Is IPV6 better for youtube adblockers?

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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nostupidquestions·No Stupid QuestionsbyHirohito

If the temple bell rings in Kyoto at the exact moment the tide hits the shore in Osaka, does the sound travel faster over the concrete or does the humidity in the air compress the distance between the

EDIT: Sorry original was cutoff for some people!

If the temple bell rings in Kyoto at the exact moment the tide hits the shore in Osaka, does the sound travel faster over the concrete or does the humidity in the air compress the distance between them?

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