[rcbdev]

> do you really believe they don't know what you do on your personal internet connection linked to your name and payment data?

Many people in the Western Europe used, until very recently, prepaid anonymous mobile data cards that they recharged monthly with charging vouchers paid for in cash.

All this ended in the last 5 - 10 years. The U.S.-American corporate glass citizen slave mentality is actually a little tad bit new here, thus the outrage.

[watwut]

You have it other way round. USA had burner anonymous cards when European countries did not.

[rcbdev]

Yes. Had.

In Europe it was the norm far longer than in the U.S.A.

[watwut]

Where exactly in Europe? Countries I interacted with did not had anonymous burner phones. You could buy prepaid card, but you had to show your id and give out your name. You had contract like any other (contract for that number).

Prepaid card was just a payment thing, not anonymity thing. I know, because I functioned on prepaid cards for anonymity unrelated reasons.

[rcbdev]

Czechia, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Portugal, Croatia, etc. pp.