[dayglored]

Windows 10/11 GDID: Spyware / Telemetry / Tracking ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[z3n]

"Telemetry & Tracking"
AKA: Spying!


"The identifier cannot be turned off or disabled through normal Windows privacy setting..."

Sure it can. It's a two step process. Format disk. Install Linux.

[Zathras]

This is probably the setting they use to ID remote users accessing corporate servers.
If so its been in Windows for at least 10 years.

[Paal Gulli]

That it can't be uninstalled doesn't mean it can't me removed from the installation media, which prevents it being installed in the first place. I installed Win10 from "Ameliorated" [AME] media which, among other things, has Cortana removed. And Cortana is one of those things that can't be uninstalled, but that doesn't mean it can't be deleted from the installation media.

The intent of Amelioration was to remove ALL of Micro$loth's spyware and the Global Device ID apparently was one of the victims:

This is a Win10 install and there is NO ExtendedProperties SUBKEY below IdentityCRL in the registry. Which I offer as proof that M$'s underhandedness can be thwarted.

Now that its existence is known, I am confident there will be any number of installation images showing up online with the GDID deleted (as it already is in Win10AME).

[dennisw]

Windows 10/11 GDID: Spyware / Telemetry / Tracking

Google tracks the typical user 10x more than Microsoft Windows 11. Goog tracks via the Chrome browser in Android phones and in Windows. Goog also tracks you with Gmail and YouTube if you sign into you tube. Dittos for other GooG apps.

LINUX TOO. You install Linux Mint and use Chrome the same way you do with Windows 11. You will be tracked the same amount.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.