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Re: Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS

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Post by TMWNN »

anonymoushn wrote: post #12

Is this only for people using the "linked numbers" feature? Edit: I guess that's actually the normal way of using GV! For weird personal reasons I'm using GV without a linked number, and I still receive SMSes at GV.

>Edit: I guess that's actually the normal way of using GV! For weird personal reasons I'm using GV without a linked number, and I still receive SMSes at GV.

That's not weird at all. I've always used Google Voice on its own, without forwarding calls/messages to a "real" number. By abstracting my phone onto a web app, I had the benefits of Handoff years before Apple introduced it.

Re: Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS

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Post by compsciphd »

mythz wrote: post #43

This was about to become super inconvenient as I use my GV number for all online services, but just checked and was still able to receive 2FA notifications on GV App and Email so crisis is adverted for now. Still a reminder that any Google services & features I rely on could be axed at any minute. It's been a couple of years that I've sworn off trying out any new Google Services. I used to look forward to their produ…

some banks blacklist voip #s (and hence google voice #s it seems) so 2FA notifications fail to go them. I wonder if people who have google fi have the same issue.

Re: Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS

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Post by fabbari »

rjzzleep wrote: post #41
vsnf wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is precisely because Google Voice is a Google property that I, as an expat, have taken great effort to keep my US phone number with my US carrier. Trusting Google with such an absolutely critical aspect of one's life is lunacy.

What did you choose? I used Google Fi for a while but it's becoming gradually worse, so I've kept it mainly for the off chance that I need to go somewhere I can't easily buy a sim card.

I travel to Europe a lot - being originally from Italy - and they will have to grab my original 30$ per month contract from my cold dead hands. I get - slow - unlimited data when travelling and free SMSs, saved my bacon more than once.

I think they have something similar for 45$.

Re: Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS

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Post by silurian »

Message wasn't showing when I viewed page as logged in Google user. Message for others benefit when viewed in incognito:

> Important: In light of spam causing potential issues with SMS forwarding, text message forwarding to linked numbers will stop on or after August 1.

Re: Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS

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Post by b112 »

dheera wrote: post #14
vladgur wrote: post #9

Whats a good GV alternative? I dont mind paying for a service as well

Twilio. I send all idiot 2FA websites to a Twilio number and forward to Slack. You can also forward to e-mail or pretty much do whatever you want. Twilio's also great because I can set it up to answer known 2FA voice calls and hit the # button automatically to confirm. I also use it to play endless loops of hold music for unscheduled calls to teach businesses to stop calling me without making an appointment and e-mai…

Lenny, a bunch of sound files for asterisk, is great for this.

Nothing beats a confused, talkative old man, when it comes to wasting a caller's time.

I'm sure you could adapt the files / logic.

(If you love hearing telemarketers experience stress and annoyance, search for lenny examples youtube...)

Re: Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS

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Post by b112 »

tyingq wrote: post #20

"Important: In light of spam causing potential issues with SMS forwarding, text message forwarding to linked numbers will stop on or after August 1." That's interesting. I thought Google felt like they were quite good at squashing spam.

Google puts gmail spam in your spam folder, and they're terrible at mistaking legit stuff for spam.

While their overzealousness is annoying, at least you still have the message in the spam folder.

There is no SMS spam folder, so they'd have to drop messages they think of as spam.

Re: Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS

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Post by urda »

dheera wrote: post #23
urda wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I also use it to play endless loops of hold music for unscheduled calls to teach businesses to stop calling me without making an appointment and e-mail me instead. I feel ya. I have a public line that does the same thing, but instead if you call or text it just lets you know that I'll contact them, not the other way around. Question: why do you not terminate the call? Do you not get charged for the usage if you mak…

> Question: why do you not terminate the call? Do you not get charged for the usage if you make them hold? It's only something like $0.0085/min. On their end though if someone stays on hold for 15 minutes it wastes the company's 15 minutes worth of that person's salary time and they learn to not do it again.

Ah gotcha, thanks for the tip.

Re: Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS

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Post by simtel20 »

compsciphd wrote: post #52
mythz wrote: post #43

This was about to become super inconvenient as I use my GV number for all online services, but just checked and was still able to receive 2FA notifications on GV App and Email so crisis is adverted for now. Still a reminder that any Google services & features I rely on could be axed at any minute. It's been a couple of years that I've sworn off trying out any new Google Services. I used to look forward to their produ…

some banks blacklist voip #s (and hence google voice #s it seems) so 2FA notifications fail to go them. I wonder if people who have google fi have the same issue.

There are lists of numbers owned by voip providers. If you have an early gv number it is usually not on those lists, and so it works fine. Whether that's a good thing is another question.
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