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oasisbob on Feb 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google’s IPv6 Stats Pass 3% Less Than 5 Months Aft...

I'm guessing that Google's new "Reduce Bandwidth Usage" setting is helping to increase the IPv6 utilization metric. (It was released in January.) [1]

eg, with the setting enabled (Chrome/iPhone), http://test-ipv6.com shows a User Agent / v6 address corresponding to Google's proxy farm.

[1] https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/data-compre...

_delirium on Feb 10, 2014 [–]

Interesting, I didn't realize Chrome Mobile did that now. IIRC that was one of the features of Opera Mobile that was somewhat unusual at the time.

cpeterso on Feb 11, 2014 | [–]

Amazon's Kindle Fire browser (Silk) uses a similar data compression proxy (using SPDY) through Amazon.

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