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I do. I don't know why, but when debugging some network issues I discovered just shutting IPv6 down fixed the issue. Could it have been a buggy implementation on a single device on the network messing everything up? Maybe. But since I have no real benefit for IPv6, it was trivial to turn off.

It also lets me wait until other people (hopefully) build better privacy systems.

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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 address, though alternatives like Betternet/Tailscale/Tor will also work around that problem.

"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 after switching to IPv4.

My theory is that they rely on that IPv6 address to know exactly who they are providing results to and thus selling to.

If that theory didn't hold water, there would be exactly zero difference in search results after switching to all IPv4.

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.

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