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by ninkendo 995 days ago
> With IPv6 privacy extensions, your address changes regularly. This seems like an improvement.

Eh… If I was a company that wanted to use IP addresses to fingerprint users, IPv4 vs IPv6+privacy extensions both seem identical to me. Multiple requests from the same IPv4 address mean “someone, perhaps more than one person, from the same household/wifi”. Whereas multiple IPv6+privacy requests from the same /64 prefix means the same thing.

ie. You just consider the first 64 bits of the IP and can assume the same amount of information you already would assume from the IPv4 address. Just ignore the trailing 64 bits because it’s expected that they’ll be randomized/shuffled even from the same client.