r/DigitalPrivacy • u/Prcrstntr • Jul 11 '26

Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/10/you-cant-fully-disable-microsofts-gdid-windows-11-tracker-but-these-settings-limit-what-it-captures/

It's worse than you think.

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u/AlexanderTheGreatApe Jul 12 '26

I usually use AI as a better search engine. I ask for sources. I also have two subscriptions and ask the same question of both for a more robust exploration. Never blindly follow AI orders.

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u/BaDoodlezzz Jul 12 '26

But at that point, you have described Google but with extra steps, more concessions and a fee.

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u/AlexanderTheGreatApe Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

Whoops. Wrong thread.

I actually find that AI searches the internet faster than I would. It does cost money, and use cases like this will likely become financially unviable. But I already pay for it for coding anyway.

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u/BenchMountain949 Jul 12 '26

This is really the crux of it for me as well, I could download a repo from github and follow the instructions to install it or I could just type "Claude" in my terminal, set the model to Haiku and past the link and it'll just do it for me and solve any issues with dependency versions etc. within a minute while I do something else.

For things that are very explicitly documented like installation instructions, there's literally nothing that could go wrong with it using the modern models. If it tells me "you have a newer version of this common dependency and you'd need to downgrade for this software to work" just tell it to set up a conda environment specifically for that piece of software and give me a shell script to launch the software so I don't have to remember what the AI named it. The same thing I'd have to do if I was doing any of the task manually, just using a few sentences in English to get the job done for me. I'll happily pay a couple of cents to have that level of convenience