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I didn’t get your description of IPv6 offering better privacy protection. With IPv6, your ISP could give you one address for each of your devices for life with
by AnonC 7y ago
I didn’t get your description of IPv6 offering better privacy protection.
With IPv6, your ISP could give you one address for each of your devices for life without any grudges or pain, assuming it doesn’t mind losing out on the static IP add on pricing that some charge in the scarce IPv4 space. That would enable better long term tracking without additional tokens (like cookies) and fingerprinting. We’ll never run out of IPv6 addresses.
- jedberg 7y agoYour ISP only assigned you the first 1/2 of the address. You get to pick the second 1/2 yourself. Your client can (and in most cases will) constantly switch up the second 1/2 of the address.
- Reelin 7y agoIs that required, or only by convention? Ie could an ISP hypothetically choose to allocate a full IPv6 address to you?
- jlgaddis 7y agoSure, they could assign you a /128 for your connection to them. In fact, I imagine there are some ISPs out there that do just that.
- djrogers 7y agoWhich means that trackers will still track you, but only based on the first 1/2 of your IPv6 address. Since that doesn't change (often) it's essentially as fixed as your old /32 IPv4 address was.