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1. I'm not talking about botnets, I'm talking about sites that crawl your content to copy your database and mine competitive intelligence on it.

2. Clients should be running firewalls anyway, yeah, yeah. 99% of the security holes online are because of "shoulds". In the wild many, many, many people will assume their IP is unguessable and then it will leak _somehow_. A single hacked device on the other side of the firewall, or a misconfigured firewall, etc.

3. Well that might be true for your home internet, but it's almost certainly not true for your mobile phone unless you live somewhere weird.



1. Same thing, ban the entire /64, or /48. Now it's similar to banning an IPv4 address.

2. Hacked device on the other side of the firewall has been an issue even with NAT. NAT + firewall is not some magic unicorn, if someone gains access to a device behind your NAT + firewall they are still on your local network. No change there.

3. Most users will use Wifi at home, thus have an IP address that can be tracked. My exit IP for my T-Mobile phone is almost always the same too when I am in the same location...




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