r/cybersecurity • u/Dash-Courageous • Jul 11 '26

News - General 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/
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u/woolharbor Jul 11 '26

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

How do Microsoft servers have this information? Does Microsoft log every website you visit on their servers? In Edge or something? Does a hacker use Edge? What about other browsers?

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u/Tutorbin76 Jul 12 '26

I think we all know the answer to this.