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by md5person 2074 days ago
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted, but I think it's yet another confirmation that this place has gone full Reddit.
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Performative cynicism + speaking hypothetically about past events = I'd downvote it twice if I could. In reality very very few ISPs are giving one IPv6 address per customer. ISPs are greedy but they're not wantonly cruel.
> "In reality very very few ISPs are giving one IPv6 address per customer"

In actual reality, global IPv6 adoption is at ~33% [0, 1], so I'd say this is, at best, a premature and naive presumption. ISPs actively engage in rent-seeking, and resource scarcity is another contributing factor. In-short, there's nothing in OPs comment that warrants the downvotes.

[0] - https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html [1] - https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/resources/our-thinking/state-of...

wmf does have a point though. When it comes to ISPs and telecom companies, I'm pretty cynical. It's a well earned cynicism though.