Ohhh, this is wonderful. I'm eternally grateful for whoever runs yopmail.com; I didn't know that something similar exists for text messages as well! It sounds

Ohhh, this is wonderful. I'm eternally grateful for whoever runs yopmail.com; I didn't know that something similar exists for text messages as well! It sounds like something that should be an open source crowd-sourced service! It imagine it could work like this: 1) Generous people donate a phone number by putting a cheap prepaid SIM into an old smartphone with a special app on it. 2) Everyone else can now use this number to receive messages! 3) The service could end up having hundreds of phone numbers available, with stats (eg. last message received, number of messages received, downtime, etc.) Just like generous people today run TOR exit nodes, generous people could run an "SMS entry node". (not sure if that term makes sense) Disadvantage: like TOR, it can and will be abused by spammers. Advantage: Companies need to come up with better anti-spam measures instead of "give us all your personal data".