The same pro Linux outlets where you can find bogus complaints about being 'locked out of their Microsoft account' you'll find GDID scaremongering.

Microsoft's likely motivations for GDID:

• Licensing enforcement
• Telemetry correlation
• Fraud detection
• Device identity for cloud services
• Delivery Optimization peer tracking
• Cross-device sync consistency

GDID is a single source of truth for "this Windows installation."

Did they look to see if other operating systems have anything like this (they do have similar)? Apple has device identifiers, though they are sandboxed and not cross-service for example.

It is a system-level fingerprint that:

• Users cannot disable
• Was not publicly documented
• Can correlate activity across VPNs
• Was used in a criminal investigation to track a device across countries

-They love to harp on Bill Gates being in the 'Epstein Files', but what is he actually guilty of? The conspiracy theorists act like everyone in them is guilty of pedophilia (they're not; guilt by association is silly). Meanwhile they don't want anything that could be used as a tool to actually convict real criminals.

Linux has Machine ID, D-Bus ID, Systemd identifiers, and hardware fingerprints (MAC, serials, etc.) -Catching on that it's not such a strange thing yet?

GDID is mostly used by Microsoft services, not third-party apps, and they help make the Windows experience smoother.