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by sneak 2295 days ago
Also worth mentioning: they are lying when they say it’s anonymous. It includes your IP address, which is a globally unique identifier. I believe it also transmits an installation ID, which persists on the machine.

It is absolutely not anonymous.
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314 2294 days ago
I doubt that my IP address is a globally unique identifier. I can think of 15-20 devices that are sharing it now. Advertising networks jump through a lot of hoops to tie those devices together in a small cluster of user profiles.

How does the installation ID identify a person?

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