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by lupusreal 488 days ago
Yeah but the average person wouldn't know to set up a firewall (and can't count on their ISP to have their best interests at heart.) Therefore the general public benefits from the degree of protection that NAT provides.
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Almost 50% of internet traffic is IPv6.

Obviously, those average people have a suitable firewall provided by default on their routers.

I think the vast majority of that is from phones?
It will vary by country, but for example all but one of the large broadband ISPs in the UK use IPv6.
Do they?
Then just enable the firewall by default, or don't even provide a way to disable it unless the user enters "developer/advanced/Pro (tm)" mode. None of these are valid excuses for NAT.