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Well for one, google voice[0] is free in US (for calls within US, outside US, 1c per min ). You can receive/send messages and calls from the hangouts app, chrom
by ktta 10y ago
Well for one, google voice[0] is free in US (for calls within US, outside US, 1c per min ). You can receive/send messages and calls from the hangouts app, chrome extension, and the website. beware, though, you can't totally replace your phone since some services recognize it as a VoIP number and refuse to take it as a legitimate 2FA.
You do need an existing phone to get a number, which is probably better than giving your CC info to some VoIP service.
And by some, I mean (for me atleast) wells fargo, and azure.
[0]:https://www.google.com/voice https://www.google.com/voice
- techsupporter 10y ago> some services recognize it as a VoIP number and refuse to take it as a legitimate 2FA This bothers the crap out of me because a) when I'm signing up as a new customer, the company with whom I am establishing a relationship should be able to verify that I am me and then believe whatever phone number I give them and b) my "VoIP service" is more secure and less well-known than my mobile phone provider, thus reducing the attack surface for those numbers.
- closeparen 10y agoPossibly an anti-spam measure. If it needs to be moderately difficult to create thousands of accounts, requiring a phone number and cutting off well known bulk suppliers of phone numbers is likely an effective strategy.