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40% of Google users now connect via IPv6
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Re: 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6
#152I sure wish Starlink supported IPv6. They're a brand new ISP planning for millions of customers and decided from the start they couldn't get enough IPv4 addresses for everyone. Fair enough! But we're stuck with Carrier Grade NAT and it is a drag. On Starlink it's impossible to host a server socket directly, which makes any peer to peer networking a PITA. Geocoding IP addresses doesn't work so I have to bend over back…
All your criticism is valid in the long run but right now, SpaceX'es focus is to scale up, focus on usability for majority of its customers and become profitable. Removing any unnecessary feature is a must in order to reduce risk.
Where did you get that information?
Re: 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6
#153I sure wish Starlink supported IPv6. They're a brand new ISP planning for millions of customers and decided from the start they couldn't get enough IPv4 addresses for everyone. Fair enough! But we're stuck with Carrier Grade NAT and it is a drag. On Starlink it's impossible to host a server socket directly, which makes any peer to peer networking a PITA. Geocoding IP addresses doesn't work so I have to bend over back…
All your criticism is valid in the long run but right now, SpaceX'es focus is to scale up, focus on usability for majority of its customers and become profitable. Removing any unnecessary feature is a must in order to reduce risk.
CGNAT itself is a enormous risk. It's WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more complex and unstable than v6.
Re: 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I fill out 10x as many CAPTCHAs This a feature, not a bug. You can now identify a traffic light on a subconscious level 3x further away than the average driver that has an assigned IPv4. Where average drivers hesitate upon seeing a yellow light, wondering if they have enough time to go or not, you just know that a slight uptick in speed will get you through the intersection right as that yellow flashes over to red.
That’s a non-sequitur argument. Simply because your parent comment can identify the state of lights faster does not make them any faster at deciding whether to cross them because it doesn’t influence them to make different decisions based on the speed of their vehicle and then distance from the light.
it was a joke
Re: 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
IPv6 has had privacy built in for years now, on every OS available. Your inbound address will remain static and possible MAC address derived, but unless you're hosting anything on it (or disabled your firewall) your network traffic will be perfectly private. I've noticed several websites where IPv6 has lower latency than IPv4. The ease of accessing different VMs on cloud providers that will hand out a single IPv4 add…
"IPv6 has had privacy built in for years now, on every OS available. Your inbound address will remain static and possible MAC address derived, but unless you're hosting anything on it (or disabled your firewall) your network traffic will be perfectly private." I've tested with IPv6 on and off on several machines over the course of months. Google's search results become wild and unpredictable on the same machines soon…
I've switched between IPv4 and IPv6 and Google's search results are practically equally bad after switching between either. Unless you're behind CGNAT, I suppose.
I've noticed that many IPv6 address blocks have more up to date location information from parties like Maxmind.
Re: 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6
#156My website has a few hundred thousand users. My development is completely user driven. I get hundreds of feature requests and other emails regarding my site per month. So far, not a single user mentioned IPv6. So I never added an AAAA record. The codebase has grown for over 10 years now. God knows what subtle breakages would happen when IPv6 requests come in. I wonder if I ever will add IPv6 or just leave the site ru…
> So far, not a single user mentioned IPv6.
That's because they don't know your website exists.
Re: 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6
#157I sure wish Starlink supported IPv6. They're a brand new ISP planning for millions of customers and decided from the start they couldn't get enough IPv4 addresses for everyone. Fair enough! But we're stuck with Carrier Grade NAT and it is a drag. On Starlink it's impossible to host a server socket directly, which makes any peer to peer networking a PITA. Geocoding IP addresses doesn't work so I have to bend over back…
> A little surprised that a new ISP created in 2021 wouldn't have IPv6 support as one of their launch features.
Worse, they had it and turned it off at some point!
Re: 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6
#158I'd be using IPv6, but it's not directly supported by Sonic Fiber in the bay area, strangely enough. Need to use 6in4 tunnelling if you want it.
I’m a Sonic customer, and have a fully working IPv6 connection from them.
Re: 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6
#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't use Netflix but that never happened to me.
I'd go so far as to say that it's actually never happened to anyone that doesn't use Netflix.
I can't tell if this is a 'by definition' comment or if you mean that Netflix is the only major service which blocks VPN IPs.
The latter isn't quite true, sometimes a site is having a bad day and sets up Cloudflare rules which make VPN access impractical or impossible, but it's more true than not: I can usually use Netflix off a VPN, just not consistently.
Re: 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6
#160And if you click through to see the US, it’s over 50%.