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by jeroenhd 1243 days ago
> A transition from IPV4 to IPV6 creates a new per device tracking capability that leaks internal network structure.

I doubt it. Your load balancers will be the only addresses that will be addressable anyway. Your IPv4 load balancers will also be "leaking" IP addresses.

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You're thinking of the server side, not clients.
Clients that aren't misconfigured will use random IPv6 addresses that rotate. The usual default is once per day but that's a mere preference, you can make your computer take a new IP every minute if you want.
You can still see subnets though which was the original point.
With many ISPs handing out /64s and others handing out /48s and /56s to households, it's difficult to tell a subnet from another IP.

Even still, this information is pretty useless. So what if you know my current subnet is 3a80? That won't help you get past the firewall.

Clients use random IPv6 suffixes.