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A counterpoint is that by cycling through IPv6 addresses no one can ever tell who is who by addresses alone. Okay, they could probably tell from the IPv6 prefix because the entire company/household shares it, but people used to ("use to" if you live in a Western country, probably) share the same public IPv4 address too so I find that point rather moot.

Another very strong counterpoint to this is that, you can't really build a truly-P2P network nor self-host a service on Internet, when everyone is behind CGNAT. At some point, as IPv4 resources get scarcer, only corporates will have the ability to host services on the Internet, and I don't think it is in their interests to host Tor nodes, for example...




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