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Comment by willis936

5 days ago

IPv6 eliminates the possibility of proxies / VPNs. Being tracked simply by IP becomes non-optional.

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kstrauser  5 days ago

This is factually wrong. I have a VPN between my VPC and my house so services can communicate securely without configuring each one separately with TLS.

Dagger2  5 days ago

Wat?

It, um. No, it doesn't do that. You can use proxies and VPNs in v6, and you're about as trackable by IP as you are on v4.

  • willis936  5 days ago

    Name one VPN service that supports IPv6. Perhaps the most existential reason IPv6 was invented was to make proxies obsolete.

    Either you use address translation or you don't.

    • iso1631  2 days ago

      VPNs as a technology, gre/ipsec and wireguard. I assume others.

      VPNs as a youtube sold service. Mullvad/mozillavpn for one

      I get an IP of fc00:bbbb:bbbb:bb01::1 and it uses NAT66 to place me in New York despite being in the UK

        1.|-- fc00:bbbb:bbbb:bb01::1                                                        0.0%    10   78.6  80.2  78.6  82.0   1.2
  2.|-- 2607:9000:a000:34::1                                                          0.0%    10   80.1  80.3  79.3  81.2   0.7
  3.|-- ???                                                                          100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
  4.|-- 2607:f740:70:101::1                                                           0.0%    10   82.2  83.9  79.8 104.3   7.2
  5.|-- 2001:550:2:d::4a:1                                                           90.0%    10   80.1  80.1  80.1  80.1   0.0
  6.|-- be3448.agr22.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (2001:550:0:1000::9a36:1a9)            60.0%    10   80.4  81.0  79.2  82.9   1.5

      and on