alt Hacker Newsgoing on a bit of a tangent here - some discussion there seems to be imply that AI bots mostly use IPv4s, which makes sense to me given that they are probably bots hosted by some cloud. Whereas IPv6 may be more organic traffic from e.g. mobile users (not in this case probably)... which made me think if at some point IPv6 may at some point win against IPv4 just because its more organic traffic (i.e. not from big tech cloud), leading to pages blocking IPv4? Just speculation on my side
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The hardest-to-mitigate bot traffic tends to come from residential proxies, and most residential connections are still v4-only.
However, it is also easy to get large numbers of v6 addresses cheaply.
This is weird, every VPS I've rented in the last 8 years had IPv6, and some didn't even had IPv4.
My residential ISP doesn't support IPv6 at all. If a site is ipv6 only, I can't reach it unless I use a VPN.