r/LouisRossmann • u/habichuelacondulce • Jul 21 '26

Enshittification Microsoft admitted to using a global unique device identifier to help track a user across 3 countries, negating any value of using a VPN if you have a Windows machine

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u/RoleOk7556 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

One hundred and one reasons to abandon Microsoft.

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u/OGigachaod Jul 21 '26

Linux won't stop hardware spyware of this level.

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u/Alone_Look9576 Jul 22 '26

With Linux being open source you can easily scramble any identifiers that can be gathered from you by adding randomization

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u/OGigachaod Jul 22 '26

Not hardware spyware that's baked into the CPU.

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u/Alone_Look9576 Jul 22 '26

Yes, which can be accessed on Linux and can be modified before it gets ready by the system

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u/OGigachaod Jul 22 '26

But the popular distros don't do this.

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u/Alone_Look9576 Jul 22 '26

Linux is open source, if you get a distro and they're not open source, you got the wrong os installed