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They already have a device specific ID, this isn't asking for a new ID. See the link above. It's not considered a fingerprinting mechanism because it's only specific to a device/app-vendor pair, so can't be shared to fingerprint across apps. The problem is you can't use it for rate limiting because a bad actor could just generate a random ID and use that. That's why an endpoint for validating a given ID was issued fo…
Now you have Google dictating who can make Android phones that actually work. That has to be in violation of GPL somewhere.
Uh what? Nobody is saying Google needs to be in control. Where did you even get that from?