alt Hacker NewsA commenter mentioned [1] that major Russian apps now all ask for permission to read a unique device ID to deanonymize users. The people that stopped Intel from adding such an ID to their CPUs had perfect foresight [2] (too bad later Intel added it anyway). But then it's not hard to guess that if you include a feature whose purpose is to attack the user, it will be used to attack the user.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III#Controversy_about_...
>A commenter mentioned [1] that major Russian apps now all ask for permission to read a unique device ID to deanonymize users.
To be fair it's not really limited to Russian apps. Many popular apps on play store have it as well:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.m...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pinterest&...