Re:Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how ide...
by gruez on Monday August 24, 2026 @08:51PM
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>But in most OSes the right part is randomly generated and changes on some cadence (e.g. daily).
>So in many cases, the ability for a server to individually fingerprint your device solely based on the IP address is roughly equivalent between IPv4 and IPv6.
That still makes ipv6 strictly worse, if you consider that a device is always uniquely identifiable at any given time, whereas with ipv4 NAT they can't be individually identified.
>So in many cases, the ability for a server to individually fingerprint your device solely based on the IP address is roughly equivalent between IPv4 and IPv6.
That still makes ipv6 strictly worse, if you consider that a device is always uniquely identifiable at any given time, whereas with ipv4 NAT they can't be individually identified.