Windows 11

[pshufd]

It's also interesting to ask AI about similar mechanisms in macOS and Linux.

 

[Steve Adams]

It's also interesting to ask AI about similar mechanisms in macOS and Linux.

Please post your responses. Interested!

Where Apple are uber secretive about their inner workings of their OS sniffing, I bet there won't be very much info on what they are actually doing behind the scenes. But it's just as bad as Microsoft, users just don't know it.

Linux, Whatever is happening on linux is open to source code and users (if they know how to read the code) and can see exactly what the OS is doing.

Plus, there is this wave of content creators/"media" personalities that love crapping on everything MS does because it gets clicks. Even though most of it is completely sensationalized and completely overhyped.

As I mentioned it previously, the actual number of people these "bugs" affect is about .000001 percent of all windows users.

 

[maflynn]

More details on how much MS actually tracks with the GDID - credit to @eltoslightfoot in sharing this in another thread
Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows “surveillance software”.

A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID

 

[pshufd]

Please post your responses. Interested!

Where Apple are uber secretive about their inner workings of their OS sniffing, I bet there won't be very much info on what they are actually doing behind the scenes. But it's just as bad as Microsoft, users just don't know it.

Linux, Whatever is happening on linux is open to source code and users (if they know how to read the code) and can see exactly what the OS is doing.

Plus, there is this wave of content creators/"media" personalities that love crapping on everything MS does because it gets clicks. Even though most of it is completely sensationalized and completely overhyped.

As I mentioned it previously, the actual number of people these "bugs" affect is about .000001 percent of all windows users.

I no longer have the output. What I got, though, indicates fingerprints across programs we use including the macOS. Chrome was mentioned as being noisy.

 

[diamond.g]

More details on how much MS actually tracks with the GDID - credit to @eltoslightfoot in sharing this in another thread
Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint



A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID

That isn't terribly surprising, it would align with how they can do Xbox hardware bans.

 

[maflynn]

That isn't terribly surprising, it would align with how they can do Xbox hardware bans.

On one hand, not surprising, but on another disappointing.