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Bypassing phone number requirements? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Are there any ways to avoid handing over your real phone number, besides having an extra SIM? Lots of places/services want SMS verification, but i rarely want to hand out my actual phone number.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A google service doesn't really inspire trust in privacy? I'm trying to move away from Google services as much as possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SMS is unencrypted, insecure, and not private to begin with. Your SIM provider can see everything you send plus track you via cell towers.

As someone who is currently de-googling my own stuff I understand but wanting google services but please don't think it being Google is why it's not Privacy focused.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Its simply to avoid handing out my real phone number to companies so they can use it to match data from other datasets that link it to me. If im giving them my real phone number, i might as well also just give them my real email and not an alias.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Then a Google voice number is fine for that. Just create a junk Gmail and had that number out.