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Roses are red, violets are blue, everyone is using IPv6, why aren't you? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor
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Context:

People have been asking for IPv6 Support on GitHub since years (probably a decade by now)

... and someone even got so annoyed that they decided to setup a dedicated website for checking this: https://isgithubipv6.live/

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[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (25 children)

Why should we care? So address space may run out eventually - that's our ISPs' problem.

Other than that I actually don't like every device to have a globally unique address - makes tracking even easier than fingerprinting.

That's also why my VPN provider recommends to disable IPv6 since they don't support it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago

Because people in countries with ISPs that are unable to provide IPv4 (e.g. too expensive) can't access GitHub easily.

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