person420@lemmynsfw.comtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Roses are red, violets are blue, everyone is using IPv6, why aren't you?
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4 months agoJust because you have a IPv6 address doesn’t mean you’re actually using it. At best you’re tunnelling IPv4 traffic through your carrier’s IPv6 network. Current estimates (from Cloudflare) show only about 34% of the global internet uses IPv6.
If you only used IPv6, you wouldn’t be able to access nearly 66% of the internet.
It’s super relevant in this case since they were shutdown for abusing the system and given warning that they decided to ignore while looking for a new provider.