I'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 netwo

I'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.