How is this different from google voice which is free?
Google Voice is US & Canada only, I believe.
Unfortunately Relay phone number masking is too, at this point in time.
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#92I like what Mozilla has been doing with their services, but they have built a very confusing business model of many micro services that I just don't see a ton of people signing up for as independent subscriptions. Why not bundle them all as one membership? Pocket, Mozilla VPN, Relay, Monitor, and whatever services they can scrape up premium options and features for to give them value?
A password manager would fit in nice. Maybe acquire Bitwarden.
Bitwarden already can generate firefox relay addresses!
Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay
#93How is this different from google voice which is free?
I wouldn’t be shocked if it were actually just be a reboot of the same Google service proxied through Mozilla to recapture some lost market share.
Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay
#94How is this different from google voice which is free?
Even if it was identical i'd be interested simply because it isn't Google. I used to have Google Voice.
Its not identical because it’s metered and you have to give a credit card.
Why would someone pay for this? Just to stick it to google?
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#95Maybe this is a good place to ask: I'm a British expat living in the USA, and for a while now I've wanted a service which provides a British phone number, and forwards calls and texts to my US number, while also allowing me to send texts and make calls "from" the UK number if I want to. It looks like I might be able to do this with Twilio, but I'm not a developer, and quickly got frustrated trying to build what I wan…
Have you tried https://jmp.chat ?
Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay
#96I like what Mozilla has been doing with their services, but they have built a very confusing business model of many micro services that I just don't see a ton of people signing up for as independent subscriptions. Why not bundle them all as one membership? Pocket, Mozilla VPN, Relay, Monitor, and whatever services they can scrape up premium options and features for to give them value?
A password manager would fit in nice. Maybe acquire Bitwarden.
I can't tell if /s is missing or not but Mozilla had a standalone password manager eventually it changed its name to Lockwise, and once all my passwords were in it, they sunsetted it even quicker than a google product.
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#97I don't understand the idea behind it. Now: 1) You give your real number to someone. 2) Somehow your real number goes into a list used by robo-callers. 3) A robo-call arrives on your real number, disturbing your peace. After: 0) You give Mozilla 3.99 or 4.99 US$/month 1) You give your Mozilla number to someone. 2) Somehow your Mozilla number goes into a list used by robo-callers. 3) A robo-call arrives on your Mozill…
I think the idea is to give your real email and phone number to real friends and family; then you use the relayed one with online services who might sell or lose the data. Then you could presumably ditch the related info after the spam gets to be too much? Or maybe you just do it to be more anonymous? It’s like the concept of a “burner phone” I think
So like google voice with less features?
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#98I think TextNow offers a better solution and I've been using it to do this for quite some time and it doesn't require any kind of forwarding. I can send/receive calls and messages directly from within its app and recycle numbers at any time - all for free (ad supported). Calls are of great quality too and it even includes voicemail. If I really like a number and want to lock it (to also receive 2FA codes), it's a yea…
I silently miss so many incoming calls with TextNow and from reviews it seems I'm not the only one, but I don't really know another option for a Canadian number.
Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay
#99Maybe this is a good place to ask: I'm a British expat living in the USA, and for a while now I've wanted a service which provides a British phone number, and forwards calls and texts to my US number, while also allowing me to send texts and make calls "from" the UK number if I want to. It looks like I might be able to do this with Twilio, but I'm not a developer, and quickly got frustrated trying to build what I wan…
Check out Andrews & Arnold. They provide real 07 numbers that aren't classified as VoIP by most providers, so they will actually work fine for most online services too.
(my company resells these with some add-on services on top, but for your use-case you're better off just going to the source directly)
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If you put your real phone number in your Resume and share it with a recruiter, consider your phone number public. Also LinkedIn will give away your contact details. Your Bank or any service important to you may get hacked and your phone number leaked.
I feel like we have very different expectations of what recruiters can and will do with personal information. I'm from within the EU, you? Not that they don't share your email to other persons working for the same company (I've had some name I never heard of from RecruitCorp email me seven years after I last talked to someone from RecruitCorp), or I could imagine they keep their contacts when moving into / out of sel…
As someone in the UK and used to dealing with UK-based recruitment agencies, I didn't understand the recruiter hate until I had my first experience with one of those shitty "agencies" that claims to be in the UK (or whatever they're targeting) but is actually ran from a third-world call center right next to the tech support scammers. When it comes to those, obviously all bets are off when it comes to your personal information, and the recruitment industry in the US seems to be saturated with this scum much more so than in the EU.
However, even legitimate recruiters can be a problem if you get too many of them. I recently had to rotate my business number because I was getting pretty much one call a day from someone wanting to "have a chat". They're all nice, courteous and seem to know what they're doing, but the sheer quantity became a major problem especially when you're already fully booked and aren't open to new business.