>It's harder for websites to track individual users and block them. What's not to like about this? It's a double edged sword. Other websites can't track you, s

>It's harder for websites to track individual users and block them. What's not to like about this? It's a double edged sword. Other websites can't track you, simultaneously that also means other internet users can't reach you. The most obvious consequence is that to host a server, you must purchase a VPS or rent an public IP address from your ISP, and the price for a public IPv4 address is getting higher and higher. The less obvious consequence is that you're giving up control to the VPS providers (and other centralized services). It's rather ironic that people on HN, a website whose name literally includes the term "hackers", would support things like CGNAT which hurt hackers/hobbyists the most. >Show me one person that had performance problems with ipv4 Me. My ISP's CGNAT gateway was temporarily overloaded during one of the holidays earlier this year. I was thoroughly unimpressed by the dialup-like experience.