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Sometimes you get free roaming and flat rate data tariffs …

It is just adapting existing laws to esims. Won't be nearly that long.

In the meantime, don't buy esims. Nothing but drawbacks.

I find buying local eSIMs when traveling internationally to be much more convenient than physical SIMs

Maybe, never had a need. But even more reason to have a physical sim for your primary service.

Sometimes we get cookie banners, sometimes we get EC 261, Schengen, or USB-C.

The root cause of the cookie banner problem was implementing third-party cookies in the first place. Regulation is like violence; in both that if it doesn't work you just need more, and that if you needed to resort to it you've already fucked up.

We can't wind the clock back and give Netscape a slap, or stop the operators from introducing SIM-lock on handsets. The next best thing is to fix it now, and yeah, sometimes the wheels have to turn slowly.

What else do you propose we do? Refuse to use mobile data? (Actually, doesn't seem like the worst idea.)