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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    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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        They have your identity the moment you put the sim in the phone. The phone have unique identifiers that are recorded when sold.

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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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            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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          If someone really wanted to find the person, I imagine they’d find where the signal is coming from for that device, and just narrow from there. If it always goes to/from where John works and lives, it might well be John’s phone.