At this point, I think I’d switch to a flip phone.
Maybe I’d use Signal from my desktop and my contacts might actually download and use it .
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- 5 hours
A lot of countries made it impossible to get a “burner” phone number. Check this source : https://prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.com/wiki/Registration_Policies_Per_Country
- 5 hours
It’s anyway stupid, you need your ID for the contract with your ISP, means they anyway have your ID, in last years even with a prepaid phone.
- 17 hours
If we’re a assuming this is implemented by the OS, then a different OS. If implemented by a carrier, then I’d obfuscate my data through a VPN and possibly other tools. I’m already on a different OS and VPN so not much would change.
e: I guess a vpn wouldn’t work if this was implemented by a carrier, but neither would a flipphone. At any rate, since the privacy community keeps coming out with tools, it would be a matter of time before a new workaround came out.
- 16 hours
a fake ID. you can get them easily enough.
- 16 hours
Having thought about how I use my phone: pics, music, shopping list.
Replace the phone with a very thin pocket camera, a mp3 player, and a paper notebook.
Now if I can continues using my current GOS enabled Pixel. Remove my eSim and use public WiFi and/or SilentLink with SimpleX. Its been weeks since I made a phone call and I mostly keep VoIP active for Signal and medical appointments. I can use the landline for the medical stuff.
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Its the lowest cost way to have a phone number in my country. Isn’t a phone number necessary for Signal?
I’d use a disconnected phone on wifi and download as much media as I could because eventually the internet simply wont be an option.
