if it's free, you're the product.
FOSS software existing proves this is not always true.
That is indeed a massive improvement, but until they allow multiple profiles per number - that would still mean either using the same account with internet randos as I do with IRL friends, or renting a whole other number and risking losing the account once the ownership of the number expires.
Wouldn't it be better to just, y'know, cut out the free space around it?
The ones I have seen in stores are still too long to be used with one hand or fit comfortably into a pocket. My Pixel 7a is about the biggest I can use one-handed, and even then there is awkwardness.
Your supermarket accepts payments in cash, which is better anyway.
(I say as someone who pays for certain services in Monero)
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If you are into collecting, that is. I am kind of triggered by the binary "physical vs. non-owned" because physical is not for everyone, if I was dead set on paying and the media was not available DRMless, I would rather buy a digital copy plus pirate a DRMless one corresponding to it. Buying a disk only to throw it out after ripping is wasteful. If you keep them, they take up too much space and are too inconvenient to use compared to a few external drives.
Commercial VPNs are intended to hide your identity across the web and to hide your non-HTTPS web traffic from your ISP.
You're forgetting a demographic that is probably bigger than this - people who don't care and just want to go to blocked sites.
AND only available on mobile.
The only passphrases I actually fully remember are the ones for drive LUKS and for the password manager databases.
I know I might not be relevant because I am not in the US (and in a big city), but I pretty much always order from online stores to the stores' offices. Not only to not surrender my address, but also because usually they allow paying in cash upon reception (big Amazon-like aggregators are an exception but I usually avoid them), and this also does not cost extra unlike a delivery to your door.
I'd say the most extreme bullshit began with Windows 10. At least the threat of "upgrading" to it was the final push to Linux for me.
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I don't think cellular location would be excluded from such tracking tbh. I would rather not take my phone with me at all when visiting such a potentially sensitive place, or at the very least use a Faraday cage.