I’ve gotten prepaid sims for things but obviously that’s not really a feasible method for your main life phone.

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    5 months ago

    where i live, you can buy a sim card that you can then charge by buying codes on kiosks. no identity needed, all cash

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    It might be worth looking again at pay-as-you-go. Here in the UK at least, there are some ‘bundle’ plans that are not actually that much more expensive than a contract. Topping up with a voucher once a month is a bit inconvenient but not too bad. You

    I don’t know to what extent the phone companies log and share your usage (if you’re in an English-speaking country it’s likely quite extensive) but I would imagine they could still identify you probabilistically by your patterns of use, including which towers you connect to. Using a VPN/proxy/TOR would at least limit the number of IP addresses they see you connecting to but that’s off topic a bit.

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      Thanks, that sounds like a good idea. I’ll look into what the pay-as-you-go plans are like near me

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    i’ve been using prepaid sims for over a decade and a half now and it works okay for me since i only use a voip number that forwards to my phones.

    every major carrier i’ve used in the united states have required some sort of identifying information like a state issued id or credit card; maybe the smaller/re-sale carriers will let you use cash.