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A commenter mentioned [1] that major Russian apps now all ask for permission to read a unique device ID to deanonymize users. The people that stopped Intel from

A commenter mentioned [1] that major Russian apps now all ask for permission to read a unique device ID to deanonymize users. The people that stopped Intel from adding such an ID to their CPUs had perfect foresight [2] (too bad later Intel added it anyway). But then it's not hard to guess that if you include a feature whose purpose is to attack the user, it will be used to attack the user. [1] https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/?comments=1&post=43767051 https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III#Controversy_about_privacy_issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III#Controversy_about_...

gruez 1y ago
>A commenter mentioned [1] that major Russian apps now all ask for permission to read a unique device ID to deanonymize users. To be fair it's not really limited to Russian apps. Many popular apps on play store have it as well: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.messenger&hl=en&gl=us https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.m... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.copilot&hl=en&gl=us https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pinterest&hl=en&gl=us https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pinterest&...