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[–] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did you read this article? This has nothing at all to do with windows ID.

This is just chrome collecting data on you while in incognito mode. Which is sort of obvious that they would.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago

We don't have proof of Microsoft doing that with Edge specifically. But that's academic because we already know that Microsoft uses GDID to track website visits:

Microsoft’s records showed that at that exact same minute, a Windows device carrying GDID g:6755467234350028 had visited the ngrok signup page.

Whether it does it with Edge or the system HTTP libraries or whatever it really doesn't matter, what matters is that they do.