Behind the Times: Sites still without IPv6 in 2025
Permalink | Author: Dan Dart | Published: 2025-03-13 23:45:00 UTC | Tags: 2025 amazon baidu behind bilibili canva chatgpt cnn duckduckgo dzen ebay fandom globo google ipv6 linkedin mail.ru meta microsoft naver netflix networking pinterest quora reddit samsung sites still temu tetlegram tiktok times twitch vk weather.com wikipedia without x yahoo zoom
Hi!
As of 2025, a lot of the world's top websites do not work on an IPv6 connection, which is slated to become the default for new internet connections, due to IPv6 exhaustion.
Top sites stolen from Wikipedia:
| Website |
Works? |
| Google-owned websites |
Yes |
| Meta-owned websites |
Yes |
| X |
Partial (Request succeeds but page complains as Fastly CDN has no IPv6 record) |
| Wikipedia |
Yes |
| ChatGPT |
Yes |
| Reddit |
Yes |
| Yahoo |
No, first redirect has no IPv6 record |
| Amazon Shopping |
No |
| dzen.ru |
No |
| Baidu |
No |
| Tiktok |
No |
| Netflix |
Yes |
| Microsoft |
Sometimes yes (e.g. microsoft.com, bing.com, office.com), sometimes no (e.g. microsoftonline.com, live.com, sharepoint.com) |
| LinkedIn |
Yes |
| Naver |
No |
| Pinterest |
No |
| Bilibili |
No |
| Twitch |
No |
| VK |
No |
| Mail.ru |
Yes |
| Samsung |
No |
| Fandom |
No |
| Globo |
No |
| Canva |
Yes |
| DuckDuckGo |
No |
| Telegram |
Yes |
| Weather.com |
Yes |
| Quora |
No |
| Temu |
No |
| CNN |
Doesn't load well... |
| Zoom |
Yes |
| Ebay |
No |
Perplexing, perhaps. So what are people to do?
Interestingly, here are the results for some of the most popular open source/free software and management:
Top sites stolen from my memory, TechRadar and DistroWatch.
| Website |
Works? |
| Mozilla |
Yes |
| LibreOffice |
Yes |
| VLC |
Yes |
| GIMP |
No |
| Shotcut |
No |
| Audacity |
Yes |
| FileZilla |
Yes |
| Thunderbird |
Yes |
| KeePass |
Yes |
| KeePassX |
Yes |
| KeePassXC |
Yes |
| Internxt |
No |
| Brave |
Yes |
| Linux kernel |
Yes |
| Mint |
No |
| MX Linux |
Yes |
| EndeavourOS |
No |
| Cachy OS |
Yes |
| Debian |
Yes |
| System76 |
No |
| Manjaro |
Yes |
| Ubuntu |
Yes |
| Fedora |
Yes |
| OpenSUSE |
Yes |
| Arch |
Yes |
| FreeBSD |
Yes |
| OpenBSD |
Yes |
| NetBSD |
Yes |
| NixOS |
Yes |
| GitHub |
No, only some Pages sites such as this |
| GitLab |
Yes |
Sobering, who takes the future of the Internet seriously.
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Spotify (and Netflix) on Chromium, with help from Steam, without root!
Permalink | Author: Dan Dart | Published: 2018-08-07 11:30:00 UTC | Tags: chrome chromium copy drm libraries library netflix protected spotify steam widevine
Users of Chromium will have trouble listening to Spotify, even if "protected content" (another word for "we own you") is on. This is because there are missing Widevine libraries.
The usual way to find them is to copy them from your Chrome installation, sometimes at /opt/google/chrome, sometimes at /usr/share/chrome, but these can also be acquired from Steam installations (since Steam embeds Chrome).
If you're running Steam, copy both
~/.steam/steam/config/widevine/libwidevinecdm.so
and
~/.steam/steam/config/widevine/libwidevinecdmadapter.so
to ~/.config/chromium
then restart Chromium.
If you use Netflix, use a user agent extension to set your user agent to Chrome, so Netflix won't automatically assume that you can't use it.
Hope that helps anyone coming across this issue.
Till next time.
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