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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    Buy the phone used and/or with cash. And never put any SIM card in it that can be linked back to you or someone you know.

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      4 months ago

      All the apps on your phone have access to the phone identifier. As well as other information, like your Google account. It’s pretty trivial to tie a phone to you.

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        As long as you keep to FOSS apps that you KNOW are private (you can tell which ones call home), you should be OK. For example, Lemmy with a throwaway email address, Simplex for communications, Mull with a shitload of blocks, Orbot with RethinkDNS, and so on, you’re golden. Buy your phone in a different country, on Ebay with a throwaway account and a prepaid credit card.

        There’s a lot you can do to remain truly anonymous.

        Now, my threat model does not require me to go to those extents, but you get the point.