content: I find the idea of sharing a globally unique identifier (which is derived from the hardware in the PC) with a business that runs one of the big search engines and was one of the first to join with the NSA to be rather creepy. Especially so, when the thing is constantly communicating encrypted data back to said business. How do I know that they will not use that hardware ID to fingerprint and track me as I browse the web? It would be WAY more accurate than a  1d03  n IP address. Hell, how do we know the "advertising ID" (which is a feature in Windows 10) is not derived from said hardware GUID? This post was brought to you from Linux.