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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was thinking about that too, I cant think of much this ID is good for other than fingerprinting users. It just sucks that there isnt much of anything that can be done about it without a rooted device or privacy rom.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I did a internet search on "AAAD" and I found this github repository. I'm not sure if it is the same, but they seem to serve the same purpose and share the same name. I took a look into the code and I saw something about Settings.Secure.ANDROID_ID in AboutPaymentActivity.kt, so I did some searching on that, and according to a person on stackoverflow, Settings.Secure.ANDROID_ID is a ID unique to every app on your phone, this ID will persist across uninstalls and reinstalls. The only reason it should change is if the package name or signing key changes. Also it should be different for different users on the phone, but im guessing it might not be possible to add more users on android auto, im not sure, I've never really used one.

Now, about circumventing it, you could modify the source code and remove the license verification checks and rebuild, but this might not be legal, I'm not to good with legal stuff, but the license had a few words that suggest it might be non-free, but if software licenses arent an issue, feel free! There is also the option of just resigning the apk with your own key, which should change the ID, I believe you can do this in luckypatcher with one click, but lucky patcher is kind of sketchy and might not be able to work on android auto, I dont know much about them.

I hope this helps, im sorry I couldnt find any like anything that could just reset it and be done with it, maybe someone else might chime in with a more helpful answer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I took a quick look at the plugin and it looks like it depends on the diff command line utility. I dont think it comes installed with Microsoft Windows, but if you manually installed it, id open a new terminal and try running the diff utility manually to see if its on the executable path.

But if you want to try installing it, I think it comes with Git bash for windows.

I hope this helps, have fun with Neovim!

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