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While the phone number analogy does make sense on the surface, I have to agree, I don’t want my IP to be static for privacy reasons. It’s not a great barrier,
by SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
While the phone number analogy does make sense on the surface, I have to agree, I don’t want my IP to be static for privacy reasons.
It’s not a great barrier, but I don’t want the bare minimum skills advertiser, hacker, MPAA consultant, web store, or whoever being able to easily rely on this IP being me.
Yes. There are tracking cookies, and fingerprinting, and whatever, but the bar being set this higher is better than lower.
The phone analogy makes sense until you realize you’re actively calling everyone all the time, and the callerid shouldn’t be easily readable. It’s not like phones at all really.
- globular-toast 5y agoYou'll get a /64 so you'll have more than enough addresses (2^64) to play with if privacy is a concern.
- zinekeller 5y agofacepalm In residential connections, every marketer will just figure out that particular AS gives /64 (or /56 or /48) and bundle them up, like how they use IPv4 address to track families.
- Arnavion 5y agoIndeed, stuff like IP blacklists, tracking, etc should never consider anything smaller than a /64, because it's trivial for the target to change its IP within that space just with SLAAC.