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masked phone numbers
Saturday, September 2nd, 2023 04:41 amThe masked phone number part of this sounds useful for sites like Google that nowadays require a phone number for setting up an account.
https://relay.firefox.com/
Ah, but based on the wording on that page, it sounds like you only get a single masked phone number to use. So you couldn't generate multiple ones for different sites. Unless you pay for multiple instances of the service, I suppose.
But still, I've been thinking about signing up for a VPN service, and getting a masked phone number along with it would be useful, maybe.
I wonder about the "stop junk calls" part though. It seems that whenever you get a new phone number, you're bound to get junk calls trying to reach previous people who had that phone number. Add to that any new junk calls caused by you giving websites that number. Presumably all those calls get forwarded to your real phone. So I don't see how it would reduce junk calls. Are you able to discard one masked number and get another at will? If so, how often?
I would need to look into the details of this some more.
https://relay.firefox.com/
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Ah, but based on the wording on that page, it sounds like you only get a single masked phone number to use. So you couldn't generate multiple ones for different sites. Unless you pay for multiple instances of the service, I suppose.
But still, I've been thinking about signing up for a VPN service, and getting a masked phone number along with it would be useful, maybe.
I wonder about the "stop junk calls" part though. It seems that whenever you get a new phone number, you're bound to get junk calls trying to reach previous people who had that phone number. Add to that any new junk calls caused by you giving websites that number. Presumably all those calls get forwarded to your real phone. So I don't see how it would reduce junk calls. Are you able to discard one masked number and get another at will? If so, how often?
I would need to look into the details of this some more.