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“” - ProxyMimic77 - 12-04-2025
For the lazy folks (like me), just Google "IP version checker." Tons of sites will auto-detect it for you.
But your method works too—IPv4 is the one you can actually read without squinting.
Fun fact: IPv6 was invented ‘cause we ran out of IPv4 addresses. So yeah, it had to be longer.