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Is there a shielding difference from switching terminals of an MLCC capacitor?

For electrolytic capacitors, the capacitor has only one working polarity (or it usually will get damaged if reversed). For film capacitors, the outermost metal layers ("left" and "right&...
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Ceramic capacitors soldering "placement/vertical" polarity

I was wondering, since multilayer ceramic caps have layers like this: Image source Aren't they supposed to (for better performance) be soldered on the PCB as the above picture shows aka parallel to ...
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