gd03gd031/Windows-GDID-Changer
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A script that requests the generation of a new GDID from Microsoft servers and assigns it to the Windows installation.
3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2026-07-07 · latest 2026-07-15
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> https://github.com/gd03gd031/Windows-GDID-Changer sounds like you can rotate it, but it doesn't really matter because the registration/rotation process sends a bunch of static information to microsoft, which means they can re-correlate…
comment by gruez · 2026-07-15 · in Microsoft confirms Windows GDID device identifier that cannot be disabled -
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.
comment by ranger_danger · 2026-07-15 · in Microsoft confirms Windows GDID device identifier that cannot be disabled