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The US and other western countries don't really feel the pressure of IPv4 scarcity yet. ISPs in other countries typically uses CGNAT or IPv6. Some even give you a routable IPv4 but may randomly replaced it with an ip behind their CGNAT when the lease is expired, giving you false sense of hope.
IPv4 address depletion isn't really the ISP's fault. It's a shitty solution to a shitty situation, to be sure, but it's either that or employing rationing strategies to stretch the remaining supply of IPv4 addresses.
Or just use IPv6...
Many ISPs in Denmark actually charge you 30-40 DKK (4-7 USD) extra for the 'luxury' of IPv6, which is the same that they charge for publicly routable IPv4 (of course). I found that quite infuriating, so I searched around and found one that had public IPv4 and IPv6 included in the price. A little more expensive all in all, but I just hated the concept of IPv6 being an "extra" in 2023.
Holy fuck, IPv6 is specifically designed to be non scarce and they have the gall to charge extra for it. Gross
Exactly! I wrote the same thing to them when that became clear.