Devuan considers machine IDs

The FreeDesktop documentation indicates there should be a file (/etc/machine-id) on every Linux system which uniquely identifies the computer. While the documentation says the file should be considered confidential, it appears some applications, such as the Chromium web browser, may report an error if this file is not present. Some have suggested the value should be randomized to prevent the file from being used to track Devuan users.

Source: distrowatch.com