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by Marsymars 495 days ago
> From outside there's 1 IP address. With IPv6, every device would get it's own address outside. Why do I want that? That sounds less private to me. Am I mis-understanding something? Lots of traffic on one IP address sounds more obfuscated than all separate.

Having recently enabled IPv6 for my home network, the "why" was that a) IPv6 to IPv6 connections are nominally more efficient than those that have to traverse NAT and b) it enables connectivity to/from IPv6-only internet devices.

The privacy upsides of a single IPv4 IP for a household are, to me, more marginal than the above benefits.