lol, they can track the IMEI. the phone component still works without the SIM, for example to make emergency calls. that means it is still able to connect to cell towers and you can still triangulate it's position to some degree.

I'm afraid, you'll have to cut the phone in half instead. can't be helped.

People with esims are just gonna assume they aren't being tracked. 😩

This PSA has the same vibes of the late great Apple Ads 4chan made back in the day.

Exhibit A:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ipad-spoofing/

Exhibit B:

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https://cheezburger.com/110341/4chan-hoax-ios-7-makes-iphone-waterproof

Well, if you were born in 2013 and later, there is a dude named Edward Snowden who told people about this but they called him names. This is not new. Anonymity on the internet has become a fantasy today.

I am genuinely surprised at the amount of people in the comments who don’t realize this is satire

I always leave my phone at home when doing crimes.

Technically correct...

So what do I do with the eSIM?

That cut doesn't actually go through the chip

This is such a old image

I like how they’re ” already ” tracking me. I’m still trying to understand how the meaning changes with and without the quotations, but it certainly feels important or something

Even without a SIM card you're not much less trackable. The phone still maintains a connection with the cellular towers for emergency services, sometimes even when it's fully powered off. The best way to prevent this is to remove the battery.

Everything works perfectly fine, and on top of that all the robot spam calls stopped!

Delete the French localization too

This is deliciously evil

This also stops those pesky scam calls!

SIM cards? what is this, 2014?

Still tracks you when you connect to wifi.

No shit. It's why I plan to make custom EM shielding for my devices, including my ID card...just to break the tracking.

“You remove the SIM card and… yes?”

“Can I cook mine?”

“No, you must eat it raw.”

🤓 that sim card would still work, the smaller sim cards are the same chip just in a smaller plastic housing, you can cut them to size and some of them (like the one in the photo) come with premade lines as guides

Or just use a Nokia 3310 phone