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Google's IPv6 traffic crosses 50% — a success story 15 years in the making (blog.apnic.net)

Adoption crept up almost linearly, roughly 10 points every three years since 2018, which reads like failure until you notice it's the curve of a mature protocol driven by ISPs making rational cost decisions. Jio, Vietnam and Saudi Arabia climb far steeper.

China's traffic goes unmeasured, so the true global figure is likely higher, perhaps 65 to 75 percent. The long timeline isn't a stall; it's winning slowly.

The thread torched the lazy explanations: no, the growth isn't just AWS bots, and no, you couldn't have "just" extended IPv4.