Why would you do this to us?

  • Katana314@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    It upsets me that in working with webpages, I regularly look at “all” the network traffic going to a website - and clearly Microsoft’s GUID is hiding somewhere it won’t even show.

    • InFerNo@lemmy.ml
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      49 minutes ago

      It might be stored locally, then shared with a call home through telemetry after which Microsoft then sells it as “anonymized” data, which is then again recombined with other sets by the buyer to recreate your profile.

      I read that they can combine 3 anonymized datasets to fairly accurately identify a person.