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Where do you live? Here in Canada I've had native IPv6 through Rogers for the better part of 10 years and have never had problems in any way. In fact I have IPv4 straight up disabled on a few devices because v6 has been marginally faster in any test I've done. So far Reddit and HackerNews are the only two websites I regularly visit without v6 support (why?).

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I (the guy two comments up) am in Canada through another provider. Whether the address range just isn't as well known and documented on whitelists, or one of my neighbors (IPv6 wise) runs botnets, there is no doubt that it is treated as much more suspicious traffic when I'm going through IPv6.

And this is well known in the industry. The IPv4 world has had enormous mapping and trust ratings and understanding -- coupled with a scarcity that gives range owners or operators a higher incentive to care about what happens on it -- while a lot of people are still completely in the dark about IPv6 and still treat it like some scary unknown.

> The IPv4 world has had enormous mapping and trust ratings and understanding

Indeed, and residential ranges are wholesale blocked from participating in various services, because of abuse through compromised hosts in residential networks.

Budget cloud providers are wholesale blocked from participating in various services, either at thier local edge, or the remote edge, because of abuse through deliberate malicous customers and/or compromised hosts.

I'm in the SF Bay Area.

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