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Meet deGDID: Windscribe's answer to the Windows tracker that VPNs cannot mask
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Read full postWindscribe launched deGDID, a free tool that blocks Microsoft's Global Device Identifier (GDID), a persistent Windows ID that VPNs cannot mask and was used in a US hacking case to trace a suspect across countries. The GDID links Windows installations to Microsoft services, bypassing VPN IP masking, and deGDID disrupts this tracking by blocking GDID registration and wiping local identifiers.




