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Jivan Pal · 12w
> NAT has not stopped it to happen. I never said that it does. But do you care about increased latency, decreased throughput, more centralised points of failure? If so, then you should prefer avoidin...
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"This would not happen in an IPV6 context, because the offended service can simply block traffic from the particular subnet. In other words, with IPV6 rather than NAT/ CGNAT, endpoints can distinguish different households and users"

That's the point: NAT allows "mixing users behind a common IP".
If you can not be distinguished from other users, that's privacy.
Jivan Pal · 12w
You misunderstand my use of "distinguish" there. Even with IPv4, you can already be distinguished from other users when it comes to your identity/fingerprint, because such fingerprinting doesn't come from IP metadata, but from application-layer data. However, filtering based on this requires deeper ...