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What's a good option for a secobdary phone number with suffixes? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by ad_on_is@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm looking for a service, that replicates the functionality of email aliases, but with phone numbers.

I'd imagine having one number (99999) which I then could use with suffixes like 99999-1, 99999-2, ... etc for services like WhatsApp, telegram, 2FA, etc... if such thing even exists.

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's also an attack on legitimate services that get inundated with spam/bots/abuse/etc. and one of many reasons why they're not a widespread thing to begin with.

There are a good number of resources for what you want but I don't want to name names because they should stay hard to find on purpose IMO.

There's also many other e2ee chat apps that don't require a phone number such as SimpleX, Briar, Tox, Session etc.