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by eloisant 4215 days ago
My ISP supports IPv6, but I deactivated it.

The reason: https://blog.dave.io/2011/06/vpn-ipv6-privacy/

3 comments

Leaks are a problem and people are working on it[1] but you could reconfigure your VPN to carry IPv6 traffic, too. At least OpenVPN is capable of it[2].

It's also a bit of an edge case. Browser-level proxying (Tor, SOCKS proxies) shouldn't leak whereas for p2p/torrent it makes more sense to run the client itself on a remote server rather than route traffic through it.

[1] https://leap.se/en/services/eip

[2] https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/IPv6#ProvidingIPv...

There's now even an RFC around this problem: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7359.txt
Your VPN provider is really your primary internet service provider in that case...