Also 10. And 8. Maybe since Vista actually…
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It's probably since XP at least. Probably introduced in some form in NT.
I used xp-Antispy to cut off the telemetry back in the day.
I do absolutely nothing illegal on my windows 11 machine. I save the fun torrenting for my Mac. And soon I’ll have a Linux device set up.
He' so stupid for sending ransomware and logging into snapchat/facebook from the same laptop without even using VMs
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None of the articles I've read about this explains how the GDID gets mapped onto the user's activity.
"Windows device carrying GDID g:6755467234350028 had visited the ngrok signup page"
So does it mean that Windows monitors your activity outwith just Microsoft services and sends all data to their servers? Is it maybe MS Edge history sync?
uniquely identify an installation of a Windows operating system on a device, either a physical device (...) or virtual machine
Oh. Even VMs.
What do I need to change in a VM so that this GDID also changes?
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