I'm not sure it is getting easier to cloak identity, because privacy-defeating mobile phones are required to do more and more things in society, for example: 1

I'm not sure it is getting easier to cloak identity, because privacy-defeating mobile phones are required to do more and more things in society, for example: 1) Around the world, ID is increasingly required to buy a SIM card, because governments want one-to-one mapping between a phone number (and IMEI) and a particular person. Surveillance-heavy countries can then trivially link all mobile web-browsing to that particular person. 2) Nearly all of the "vaccine passports" that have been announced recently are intended to be mobile phone apps that generate a limited-time QR code, ostensibly to prevent forgery as could happen with paper certificates. Knowing how lazy governments are, the Android version will probably require Play Services, which means Android phone owners will have to disclose a ton of info to Google – it won’t be as easy for people to install a de-Googled Android and still e.g. enter restaurants or cross borders. 3) The same is true of online banking, as many banks have phased out e.g. code cards and they now require a mobile app for authentication. Such mobile apps often require Play Services and, citing lack of security, refuse to launch if a user has unlocked the phone's bootloader and installed a more privacy-respecting Android version. It is not longer reasonable to tell privacy-savvy people to eschewing online banking and visiting their bank to do their business: physical bank locations are being slashed left and right, and even in the physical location they might tell you "Oh, you have to go online to do that".