alt Hacker NewsIPv6 eliminates the possibility of proxies / VPNs. Being tracked simply by IP becomes non-optional.
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Dagger2 • 01/03/2026
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.
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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.