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Re:Is there hope for IPv6? by vfq on Saturday January 05, 2019 @03:22PM (#18833982)
For privacy purposes I hope most ISPs do this.

Looks like the wet dream of adtech, to have everybody use a static IP address. No thanks.

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Re:Is there hope for IPv6? by krylon on Saturday January 05, 2019 @09:53PM (#18836219)
Most operating systems these days support IPv6 privacy extensions where a device will pick a semi-random address every 24 hours. IIRC, it is the default on macOS. You can have a static prefix and random addresses per device.
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Re:Is there hope for IPv6? by vbezhenar on Sunday January 06, 2019 @02:31AM (#18837109)
You will be tracked by prefix then.
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