Post #3628169
2026-07-06 13:09 UTC
RE: https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/116873103458200655
Separate question: Why in the world would logging in to Snapchat, Apple and Facebook accounts share and result in storing (associated with that activity) of some Microsoft-internal global device identifier?
#privacy
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@ret@furry.engineer 2026-07-06 13:17
@mkj@social.mkj.earth @jcrabapple@dmv.community first guess would be push notification device ID?
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@HaTetsu@mastodon.com.pl 2026-07-06 14:36
@mkj@social.mkj.earth It's probably less the identifier on its own, and more that they corroborated data on which IP addresses telemetry pings associated with it were coming from with data on activity on those accounts