rch wrote:
> If I build my own app I definitely have access to Android ID,  but my
> main question was if I did not use any app and went to www.cnn.com is
> there a way to pass ANDROID_ID to cnn.com?

Oh, I sure hope not. That would invite many privacy-related lawsuits.

> Basically all the apps even though they have their own sandboxes etc
> have the ability to log a unique device id common across all of them.

AFAIK, few if any of the built-in apps broadcast a user's device ID to
arbitrary Internet hosts.

> The only exception is browser. 

It is far from the only exception.

> Browser cannot get the device id. 

This is a very very good from a privacy standpoint.

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