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 Anyone on a data only plan, no phone number included? How it is? 
 THIS IS THE WAY. PHONE NUMBERS ARE SHITCOINS. 
 YES! Planning to switch over soon. 💪 
 https://silent.link/rates 
 I love this service 
 Has it been reliable for you? 
 very. what's strange however is how I get ads from different countries, in languages I don't understand. but I don't really mind. 
 I guess not having a phone number makes it less useful to sim swap :P 
 Exactly the reason!
https://globalnews.ca/news/10376032/toronto-couple-sim-swap-scam/ 
 I mean,  it shooullllddd be rather trivial to add extra protection with these phone companies so this isn't such an easy thing to do, but that would be asking for a lot out of these telcom companies.   
 U continually represent! t-y Odell 
 100% 
 Indeed they are.

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 Data-only silent.link for me  
 Try https://jmp.chat/ for phone line and https://jmp.chat/sim for data. All can be paid for with BTC. 
 graphene OS in airplane mode (always)

for mobile data, mudi 750 with Blue Merle and disposible sim

fuck phone numbers, they are literally 24/7 gps tracking identifiers 
 Looked up the Mudi 750. This is awesome! What is Blue Merle though? All I find is info on dogs. 😅 
 Blue merle is usually associated with animal coloring 
 Not sure what animal coloring is either? 😂 
 This is a blue merle dog coloring. It is natural btw https://image.nostr.build/92e15edce8020d3054d089d166a42e793ef4fc3b25648b9ba831287d1f233730.jpg  
 Aww. Cool. 🤙 
 Blue Merle (by SR labs) is a plugin for the 750 that wipes logs and - importantly - can change the device IMEI when you do your (regular) sim swap

https://www.srlabs.de/blog-post/blue-merle 
 Thats amazing wow. #privacy 
 Serious question for a newb like me, how does the average person get around not having a phone number? 
 Many apps offer phone numbers. Im specifically talking about a sim card with no phone number attatched. Data only. There are landlines as well.  
 don't "data only" plans still issue a phone number? I had a data only android smart watch and it had a phone number associated with it. 
 Yes