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Wants my Old Phone Number


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2020 Oct 8, 8:47pm   332 views  6 comments

by MisdemeanorRebel   ➕follow (12)   💰tip   ignore  

Some website wants to send me an SMS to an old phone card I no longer have.

I notice now that websites are not only demanding a phone number, but it MUST be a mobile. Not a landline, not a skype line.

I think a lot of the "Abuse" is a bunch of bullshit for capturing your Mobile Number and link it to your Android/Google data. If you wanted to stop abuse, a landline would be just fine.

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1   Karloff   2020 Oct 8, 8:56pm  

It's not about abuse. It's about tracking and removing any option of anonymity online. Makes it easier for the authoritarians to go after their political enemies if they have a real name. They can find out where you work and try to get you fired for your online views, then use you as example to coerce others into compliance.
2   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Oct 8, 9:03pm  

Anybody know of a website that is good for throwaway (or not so throwaway) SMS-compliant mobile numbers?

Most of the ones with temporaries are shit, and recognized.

I don't even give a damn about the country.
3   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2020 Oct 8, 9:17pm  

NoCoupForYou says
Anybody know of a website that is good for throwaway (or not so throwaway) SMS-compliant mobile numbers?

Most of the ones with temporaries are shit, and recognized.

I don't even give a damn about the country.


would love to know too
4   richwicks   2020 Oct 8, 9:25pm  

NoCoupForYou says
Anybody know of a website that is good for throwaway (or not so throwaway) SMS-compliant mobile numbers?


NancyPelosiHaircut says
would love to know too


I believe I do. Use http://www.mailinator.com. Select a random email name to get a disposable email address and just hit return. On the next page it takes you to, on the left hand side is "Public SMS"



Click that, and you will get a list of phone numbers you can use for SMS.
5   CBOEtrader   2020 Oct 8, 10:57pm  

Sms compliant?

I use RingCentral. Its a good out of the box system

The big companies build custom systems using twilio. Flowers.com did this, for ex.
6   Hircus   2020 Oct 8, 11:37pm  

I've seen a few sites that will rent you an sms number for cheap ($2-5), but I haven't tried them yet. The free sites that rotate mobile numbers didn't work good for me, likely because their small basket of numbers have been used a ton.

You can get a sim card and activate a number for $5-15 if you look around. But, they generally would have info ties to you then. Even though you may cancel the first month, you prob still gave a credit card, or popped the sim into your phone, giving them your phones IMEI. But that may not be so bad for some purposes. Although, I think many of these you can still pay cash for in person, easily giving them fake info.

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