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I was directly replying to someone saying they could subpoena the temporal owner of an IPv6 address, as though that were somehow different than IPv4.

The tracking is a moot point. You can be tracked using the same technologies whether you connect though v4 or v6, and neither stack has the advantage there.


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willis93601/02/2026

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

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