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A solution to this is to setup openvpn on a VM someplace and route all your phone's data traffic through that. I've done this using the Fedora open vpn guide (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Openvpn). To get it working on the iPhone I also had to add this to the server config:

push "redirect-gateway" push "dhcp-option DNS 8.8.8.8"

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The problem with doing this is that now all your web traffic is associated with the IP of the VM, which is presumably even easier to track back to you.

You'd have to do something exceedingly clever like have the VM automatically route VPN traffic into Tor.

Well, it depends on your goal. In this case it is to avoid Verizon adding stuff to my http traffic.

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