• StellarExtract@lemmy.zip
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    2 hours ago

    Something this article glosses over is the fact that Microsoft knew all of the web URLs he was visiting. I don’t know if that’s because he was dumb enough to sign into Edge with his Microsoft account or if they were collecting that a different way, but the GDID wouldn’t have been nearly as useful without that info.

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      And able to identify the specific accounts he was logging into. How are they able to do that?

    • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works
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      IDK either. But so much is now like, ppl wanting privacy have to be right every time. The co’s wanting our data, only once! A single hidden backdoor siphon to our data and we didn’t protect ourself from it. A single telemetry that encodes every URL we visit. A single statistical way to fingerprint us.

      That Sisyphus dude knows our pain.