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".