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autoexecyesterday at 9:59 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Since when does every household member have their own residential IP?

Isn't that the dream of IPv6? Every member and device in your home trackable all the time?


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bityardyesterday at 11:38 PM

Most devices should be using temporary dynamic IPv6 addresses, for this exact reason. I believe this is the default on most Linux distributions, not sure about others.

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b112yesterday at 11:28 PM

Thank you for making it clear why IPv6 must not succeed. Long Live IPV8.