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What does an app want my IMEI for? How do they work on non-cellular tablets (and PCs) which doesn't have one?



Lots of apps use IMEI as a unique device identifier on Android. A practice that is discouraged by Google. Anyway, since 6.0, developers should find a different way to udid. One alternative is Advertising ID which doesn't require any special permissions but is resettable by the user (though not easily found in the system's settings)

http://developer.android.com/google/play-services/id.html




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