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It is. People here are fervently pro-ipv6 and won't admit it, but your theory is completely right.

If I put my Conspiracy Hat on, the reason they just did not Extend ipV4 to just add some more address space is to purposefully eliminate Privacy on the internet

There is a huge number of people that believe in things like a "Real Names Policy", and that Anonymous Access to the internet was a mistake, These people hold positions of power in organizations that make the standards.

Na, it's just that ipv6 was conceived when the ideas of privacy on the internet weren't advanced enough.

The ideas of privacy were, but not the idea that someone really would go through the effort to store connection information for the purpose of surveillance. Naturally, because that still is a perversion.

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