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And it’s easily altered.
by sudonem 2mo ago
And it’s easily altered.
- ranger_danger 2mo agoIt can still be correlated with past IDs by countless other methods in order to keep tracking you further.
- kvuj 2mo agoBut then you're using other methods, you're not using the ID as tracker. In fact if you just remove it, it eliminates this entire discussion.
- ranger_danger 2mo agoThe trick is to combine it all, which is what MS is doing. For example your MS account stores any GDIDs that you've logged in with. If you use a different identifier to track changes in a GDID/machine-id/etc., that means you can continue tracking using mainly just the new machine-id, but you should always keep trying to correlate it with other things in case it changes.