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https://boun.cr/ has been active for years and I use it regularly on shady sites.
Do you have something similar for telephone numbers? (Often required to receive verification codes in text messages).
Sorry for the "lmgtfy" type of answer, but I generally do that search then pick a site at random.
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Do you have something similar for telephone numbers? (Often required to receive verification codes in text messages).
Search for "receive sms online" Sorry for the "lmgtfy" type of answer, but I generally do that search then pick a site at random.
I think I tried with it with Twitter, Instagram and Google (when they asked me for a phone number and I didn't want to give my real one); this was about two years ago. Does anyone have better results?
The biggest problem with these services is they never last. It's easy to set up something like this, but there are so many of these services and so few non-technical people understand the need/purpose of them, they don't get the traction required to be viable and disappear, thus perpetuating a vicious cycle for the overall "disposable email" sector as folks realize that you can't trust any of these services to stick…
The "disposable" in "disposable email" implies that you don't intend on keeping the address around. Under that use case, the service disappearing after a year or two doesn't cause any issues, because you don't have anything persistent attached to those emails in the first place. Besides, many (most?) other email services prevent you from recovering an email address (usually because a random address is assigned to you…
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The "disposable" in "disposable email" implies that you don't intend on keeping the address around. Under that use case, the service disappearing after a year or two doesn't cause any issues, because you don't have anything persistent attached to those emails in the first place. Besides, many (most?) other email services prevent you from recovering an email address (usually because a random address is assigned to you…
The emails are disposable, not the service. This causes issues b/c you're constantly having to find and change providers.
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Search for "receive sms online" Sorry for the "lmgtfy" type of answer, but I generally do that search then pick a site at random.
Whenever I try that, the number doesn't work. I either get an error message that the number isn't valid, or the text never arrives. I think I tried with it with Twitter, Instagram and Google (when they asked me for a phone number and I didn't want to give my real one); this was about two years ago. Does anyone have better results?
Paced Email is a productivity tool with the ability to add team members, rules, etc and paces your mail into regular digests.
Vend Email is similar to Firefox Relay but has the added benefit of email forwarder transferability to other users.
The biggest problem with these services is they never last. It's easy to set up something like this, but there are so many of these services and so few non-technical people understand the need/purpose of them, they don't get the traction required to be viable and disappear, thus perpetuating a vicious cycle for the overall "disposable email" sector as folks realize that you can't trust any of these services to stick…
To be fair, Mailinator https://www.mailinator.com has been around since it's inception in 2003. It offers other services now, but the "disposable email" part is still there as it was from the start.
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Search for "receive sms online" Sorry for the "lmgtfy" type of answer, but I generally do that search then pick a site at random.
Whenever I try that, the number doesn't work. I either get an error message that the number isn't valid, or the text never arrives. I think I tried with it with Twitter, Instagram and Google (when they asked me for a phone number and I didn't want to give my real one); this was about two years ago. Does anyone have better results?
If you just don't want to give out your number you could get a second one? Nowadays with eSim it should be easy to get a "pay as you go" number and only ever receive sms.
The biggest problem with these services is they never last. It's easy to set up something like this, but there are so many of these services and so few non-technical people understand the need/purpose of them, they don't get the traction required to be viable and disappear, thus perpetuating a vicious cycle for the overall "disposable email" sector as folks realize that you can't trust any of these services to stick…
Just to remind folks Apple provides this service for all iOS devices automatically.
Apple provides a disposable email ? AFAIK it provides a forwarding address, which is similar but distinct from what this is.
What else would one need from a disposable email?