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Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish · 1 year ago

Overview of SMS Verify for Crypto Services

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Overview of SMS Verify for Crypto Services

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Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish · 1 year ago

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It’s becoming more and more popular for websites (including Google & others) to demand you SMS text verify to use the service. This can be a huge drag on privacy. This article goes over a few services you can pay some tiny amount of cryptocurrency to get a burner SMS text number just for this purpose, including tips on which ones to use for which service:

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/best-temporary-burner-sms-verification-services/

Note: There are no affiliate links. This is a neutral third party article.

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This account seems to post nothing but content from this site. Doesn’t seem very “neutral” or “third party” to me…
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  Can’t even get the jmp.chat name right… They refer to it as jmb.chat
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  Maybe it’s their website? I assume they’re saying the site is neutral rather than the account.

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