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I'm not sure what you mean by "leak your IP" since IP address is always how you communicate. I guess you mean you no longer have a 192.168 or a 10. address tha
by jandrese 9mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "leak your IP" since IP address is always how you communicate. I guess you mean you no longer have a 192.168 or a 10. address that is "hidden" from the Internet for whatever value that has? One nice thing about IPv6 is your local client can continually change their address if they so want (and this is actually a common feature) to disrupt tracking. Sure you have the same prefix, but that's exactly the same boat you were in with IPv4 and NAT.
- krater23 9mo agoSo this 'feature' is just a fix for the issue with tracking that would not be there with ipv4 beside that my internal ip's are changing every day to bring more confusion into my internal net. nice!
- jandrese 9mo agoYou are being tracked on IPv4 via the gateway address. It's no different. Changing your local IPv4 address does absolutely nothing, while changing the local IPv6 address does almost nothing. Hooray.
- hypfer 9mo agoOh but it is different. It for example doesn't leak how many unique devices there are on your network. This might be very useful in a world that is moving towards authoritarian tech dystopia at mind-boggling speeds. Yes, yes, we have privacy extensions, but you can still group those through higher-level fingerprinting. You don't get mixed traffic.
- chippiewill 9mo ago> beside that my internal ip's are changing every day to bring more confusion into my internal net. nice! You can set it up so your devices can have two IPv6 addresses. The shifting address for external traffic, and a static one for local traffic. I think this is the default in many linux distros now.
- p0w3n3d 9mo agomy mistake, sorry. I meant MAC - but I learned it is no longer the case (at least not always). There used to be the standard that your IPv6 is concatenation of your MAC and part of router's external IP.