The original post: /r/privacy by /u/Fancy_Letterhead8489 on 2024-09-29 23:29:10.

Heyo, this may be a silly question, but I’ve seen a lot of posts discussing the use of burner phones and how you should turn off WiFi and only use cellular. I was under the assumption that cellular could be used to track you much easier than WiFi, and I have a lot of friends who set their phones as WiFi-only devices for that very reason.

I don’t know a lot about phones or SIM cards, but would it be possible to just buy a burner phone and set it up as a wifi-only device? Would that be safer or more private than a burner that uses cellular?