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This is true for UUID version 4, which is completely random. There are variant that use host-specific information in the process (in fact version 4 is the only one not doing it). [1]

This said, I see that often only v4 is implemented, so maybe there are issue with the other variants.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier




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