Originally Posted by
frappant
A lot of these countries though have stringent passport registration requirements for prepaid data. I don't know if being able to get eSIMs without going into mobile shops and having your passport xeroxed is a loophole that they will eventually close.
The eSIMs aren't from carriers in those countries, so the only way to close the "loophole" would be to break roaming, which no sane regulator would do.