It has gotten big publicity because microslop apparently helped the glowies to track down a criminal and they did that by tracking his movements through this device id, which made people aware of that.
Everyone with a functioning brain knew that microslop was doing this one way or the other for years, but having a case backed with facts probably made them more aware that this was still a thing.
I assumed this was common knowledge since like NT 4, but at least the knowledge is spreading
Was know that do track internet use like domain and vpn too?
They’ve had kb articles for how to look it up since win7, so i don’t get the meme
It has gotten big publicity because microslop apparently helped the glowies to track down a criminal and they did that by tracking his movements through this device id, which made people aware of that.
Everyone with a functioning brain knew that microslop was doing this one way or the other for years, but having a case backed with facts probably made them more aware that this was still a thing.
You vastly underestimate how aware the average person is about Microsoft and their shittiness.
I thought the same. I was confused when articles and posts about it started popping up. It’s been around for a Very Long Time.