Comment on GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPNComments−BobbyTables21moPeople paint this as a bad thing but wouldn’t directly reporting the UUID from the DMI info be far worse?(Kinda amazed they just didn’t to that instead)−Quarrel1moIt would be about as bad, although nothing, AFAIK, actually systematically sends it as telemetry.This GDID is essentially a similar concept though, but not as hardware tied, but is reported in telemetry.
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People paint this as a bad thing but wouldn’t directly reporting the UUID from the DMI info be far worse?
(Kinda amazed they just didn’t to that instead)
It would be about as bad, although nothing, AFAIK, actually systematically sends it as telemetry.
This GDID is essentially a similar concept though, but not as hardware tied, but is reported in telemetry.