(Shameless plug coming up)<p>Not listed in the article: I run <a href="https://smsprivacy.org/" rel="nofollow">https://smsprivacy.org/</a><p>We don't require any identifying information for signup (not even an email address). We take payment in Bitcoin.<p>We have cheap virtual numbers available where our upstream provider blocks signup verification codes, and more expensive "physical numbers" available to receive verification codes.<p>Featured on Indie Hackers here: <a href="https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/sms-privacy" rel="nofollow">https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/sms-privacy</a><p>Revenue has now grown to nearly $1200/mo.<p>Ask me Anything!
Btw if you have a Thinkpad X250 or other laptop based on a Sierra em73xx modem I wrote a python library to send/receive SMS using that: <a href="https://github.com/smcl/py-em73xx" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/smcl/py-em73xx</a>
> Ironically, Twilio gives you a private phone number for free in the trial account if you provide them with your phone number to receive a verification code. Fortunately you can use any of the temporary phone numbers from the sites above to receive the verification code to activate Twilio trial account.
While we're on the topic, could someone explain the following?<p>1. Is there any free way to send an SMS "from" a different phone number that you verifiably own, without actually sending it from that number? (e.g. if your service provider charges you for messages sent through them, but the phone number is yours)<p>2. Beyond that... how do VoIP services go about sending & receiving SMSs themselves? Why can't I do the same thing and bypass them?
YouTube's authentication system is extremely annoying; you can't attach your phone number to more than two accounts.<p>Does anyone know if you can select a Twilio trial number from a different country than your own?
Doesn't even mention Google Voice? Site author in Malaysia?<p>Maybe it's useful information for someone, but it seems more like an SEO content trap than a blog.
<evil hat>What an awesome way to collect SMS 2FA tokens. Plug this into a database of password breaches (an evil version of Have I Been Pwned that stores hashes and passwords, for example) and as soon as you see token-looking-things, hit Paypal/banksites/Amazon with any reversed passwords you have and try the token...
Ohhh, this is wonderful. I'm eternally grateful for whoever runs yopmail.com; I didn't know that something similar exists for text messages as well!<p>It sounds like something that should be an open source crowd-sourced service!<p>It imagine it could work like this:<p>1) Generous people donate a phone number by putting a cheap prepaid SIM into an old smartphone with a special app on it.<p>2) Everyone else can now use this number to receive messages!<p>3) The service could end up having hundreds of phone numbers available, with stats (eg. last message received, number of messages received, downtime, etc.)<p>Just like generous people today run TOR exit nodes, generous people could run an "SMS entry node". (not sure if that term makes sense)<p>Disadvantage: like TOR, it can and will be abused by spammers.<p>Advantage: Companies need to come up with better anti-spam measures instead of "give us all your personal data".
As someone who's sick of giving out my mobile number to sites and services, does anyone happen to know which of these might work with Skype, if they've curiously decided to lock you out of your account since they don't have a mobile number for you?
I needed something like this a few months back so I whipped up a tool over the weekend to do this.<p>Feel free to use it!<p><a href="https://sms-scope.com/" rel="nofollow">https://sms-scope.com/</a>