"If you enable" is doing ALL THE HEAVY LIFTING THERE.

Again, my point isn't about what is possible, but what is likely. -- which is MUCH MORE IMPORTANT for the real world.

If we'd started out in an IPv6 world, the defaults would have been "easy to discover unique addresses" and it's reasonable to think that would have made "pay per device" or other negatives that much easier.

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craftkiller 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Temporary addresses are enabled by default in OSX, windows, android, and iOS. That's what, like 95% of the consumer non-server market? As for Linux, that's going to be up to each distro to decide what their defaults are. It looks like they are _not_ the default on FreeBSD, which makes sense because that OS is primarily targeting servers (even though I use it on my laptop).

	▲	zekica 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Temporary addresses are used by any Linux distro using NetworkManager (all desktop ones). For server distros, it can differ.
	▲	Levitating 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		In Gnome it's just a toggle in the network settings

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password4321 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> ALL THE HEAVY LIFTING THERE

> MUCH MORE IMPORTANT

I haven't done the exhaustive research but props in advance for being the only person shouting in caps on HN. Definitely one way to proclaim one's not AI-ness without forced spelling errors.

	▲	jrm4 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Didn't even think about that. Interesting.

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electronsoup 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

and most OS do enable it by default