Last week, I wrote about how our phone numbers have evolved into a unique, static ID that companies abuse to track us. As anecdotal evidence, I mentioned that “I personally had my last phone number for well over a decade before I finally got rid of cell service altogether in favor of the ‘living on Wi-Fi 24/7’ model.” This prompted an email from a reader asking me to elaborate. Why not?
OP has a hotspot with mobile internet, but in that case why not just get a data only esim? No phone number, but you need to find one you can pay without credit card I guess? Or I don’t know if it matters at that point, but perhaps that’s a more suitable alternative? They are diet cheap, you can get 10GB for 10 USD for one month, depending on the country. Because there is no phone number there is no KYC.