That said, I'm told almost the majority of traffic observed through tor is IRC. For botnet control.
They require crutches and compromises to be made to participate in the internet. Usually this is in the form of a incorporated entity doing the hand holding.
There are areas where residential internet is fast and reliable, but if you’re building a service that sucks on bandwidth/energy/throughput constrained links, you’re building a service that’s not viable for tons of users.
The idea that to make something that works for those people we have to make systems that are worse for people with fast internet is a false dichotomy. We can (and should) make services and systems that work well for everybody.
"Everywhere you go, even when you're not actively using your phone, it's still listening." - Edward Snowden
With a SIM card, you are by definition always tracked and identified individually. It's how the technology is designed to function. You can remove the SIM card, harden your OS, randomize your Wifi MAC but at that point you aren't really using a _cell phone_ anymore.