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details, so you can stop reading here if you only want an overview and actionable
advice (i.e. use profiles as identities not inherently tied to each other).</p>
+ <p>Examples of the global OS configuration available to apps are configured
+ locale, time zone, network country code, whether the dark theme is enabled and
+ other similar global settings. Similar to extension and browser configuration
+ / state being fingerprinted by web sites, an app could use a combination of
+ these things in an attempt to identify the installation. All of these things
+ vary at runtime and can be changed, but some are fairly unlikely to change in
+ practice after the initial setup of the device such as the ones listed above.
+ GrapheneOS will likely add further restrictions in this area and a couple
+ toggles for certain cases like time zones to use a standard value instead.</p>
+
<p>Apps can generate their own 128-bit or larger random value and use that as an
identifier for the app installation. Apps can create data in their app-specific
external storage directory by default without needing permission, and in the legacy