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VPN provider built a script to block Microsoft's hidden GDID tracking on Windows — Windscribe's "deGDID" erases existing identifiers and blocks new ones from being created (tomshardware.com)
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GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN (news.ycombinator.com)
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Microsoft Confirms Windows GDID Device Identifier That Cannot Be Disabled (news.ycombinator.com)
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Arrest and extradition of Scattered Spider hacker shines light on how Windows telemetry GDIDs can identify and track users — Microsoft device identifier is just one digital fingerprint in a software world rife with them (tomshardware.com)
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Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID (news.ycombinator.com)
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Full Writeup of the Windows GDID (news.ycombinator.com)
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Windows 11 identifier code used to track Scattered Spider perp after Microsoft shared info with FBI — 19-year-old US-Estonian hacker arrested over alleged ties to infamous extortion group (tomshardware.com)
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