{"version":"2.1.239","anchor":"generated-identity-keyed-to-the-machine-not-the-user","canonical_anchor":"generated-identity-keyed-to-the-machine-not-the-user","heading":"Generated identity keyed to the machine, not the user","tier":"internal","area":"Identity","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.239\/e\/generated-identity-keyed-to-the-machine-not-the-user","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.239","markdown":"### Generated identity keyed to the machine, not the user\n\nAn internally generated identifier is now tied to your machine rather than your user account.\n\n**What**\n\nAn internally generated identifier is now derived from and stored as a machine ID rather than a user ID, and the helper takes the store to write into as an argument.\n\n**Details**\n\n- An older telemetry block that bucketed a hashed ID by modulo for sampling and posted events in batches was deleted in favour of a lazily created instance.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`setGeneratedMachineID`\n\n- Area: Identity\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5"}