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Fair argument that every unique id or name makes you trackable, but that is a much bigger (and IMHO long lost) battle on so many fronts, and it does not seem ve
by jo909 11y ago
Fair argument that every unique id or name makes you trackable, but that is a much bigger (and IMHO long lost) battle on so many fronts, and it does not seem very fair to single out Microsoft here. And I don't think that is the motivation of the author either.
- pdkl95 11y agoI'm absolutely not singling out Microsoft, and I'm not sure why you would think I was. Anybody that is regularly putting a unique identifier in plaintext network traffic is harming their users, and that goes for Microsoft embedding CIDs in dommain names, Verizon with their X-UIDH vandalism, Google's 3rd-party tracking cookies, and the like similar. Also, you will never win a war if you give up the fight. This battle is absolutely not "long lost". The only way that could be true is if you give up, thereby self-fulfilling the prediction.