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hyperrailyesterday at 11:47 PM1 replyview on HN

How a Windows device's global ID is generated may be new info in the public sphere, but the fact that the global ID exists is not a secret. This format of device ID has been in Windows since the initial release of Windows 10 in 2015, when it was introduced as part of Windows' current telemetry subsystem. To see your device's global ID, open Windows Feedback Hub, then go to Feedback Hub Settings and look under Device Information.


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ranger_dangertoday at 12:22 AM

What I'm more interested in is how/where the GDID is used. Imagine if e.g. Edge started sending your GDID as a header in every single web request.

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