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Yet IPv6 hasn’t been adopted. For decades.

Because it wasn’t implemented transparently at the OS. I can’t plug in to my ip6 only network and reach an ip4 address because end user OSes don’t implement clat transparently, even today in 2026, let alone 20 years ago.

Yet IPv6 hasn’t been adopted.

Well over half of Google’s traffic is IPv6 in the USA, and it’s recently become over 50% of all Google’s traffic worldwide at weekends.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-... https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

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> Yet IPv6 hasn’t been adopted.

news to literally anyone on a mobile internet connection (which is most internet connections!)

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