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A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID (www.pcmag.com)

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[–] unskilled5117@feddit.org 23 points 1 week ago

How does Microsoft know which GDID is accessing which websites?

The document adds that Microsoft records also showed the GDID accessing “multiple sites” from servers at Tzulo, a web hosting provider, to help pull off the hack.

The GDID is one thing, but how is the connection to activities made? Is the GDID sent while making requests to a server (in this case Tzulo), which records it? But then it wouldn’t be microsoft records showing that. But if it isn‘t, how do you know which GDID visits a website? If Microsoft is collecting which website is visited on device and sending it off to their servers then the GDID is the smallest thing to worry about.