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Which is also well documented and trivially rotatable by anyone with root on the machine. How do you rotate the MS identifier?
https://github.com/gd03gd031/Windows-GDID-Changer > well documented and trivially rotatable Yes, but almost nobody does that or complains about it at all, even though applications may have been silently phoning it home for many years now.
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"Old" people? How about the vast majority of the public, which is not represented on HN? Not to mention that one of the many major UI regressions in Windows is the removal of title bars from application windows, which is fundamental to this "trick." Try opening a PDF in Edge and also in Acrobat. Neither window has a title bar, and they are otherwise almost identical. You have to scrutinize the very few controls aroun…
Adobe provides PDF viewer that is embedded in Edge...
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"Old" people? How about the vast majority of the public, which is not represented on HN? Not to mention that one of the many major UI regressions in Windows is the removal of title bars from application windows, which is fundamental to this "trick." Try opening a PDF in Edge and also in Acrobat. Neither window has a title bar, and they are otherwise almost identical. You have to scrutinize the very few controls aroun…
Edge has less browser market share than Firefox right now, it's not the "vast majority."