I wonder what we are doing differently. It's just anecdotal, but I've got three phone numbers (throwaway T-Mobile and Verizon, and a Google Voice number that i

I wonder what we are doing differently. It's just anecdotal, but I've got three phone numbers (throwaway T-Mobile and Verizon, and a Google Voice number that is semi-precious and that I have had for most of two decades), and: I almost never get spam texts. It happens a few times per year, at most. Same with email, and I don't try particularly hard to keep my email addresses private: Sure, there's spam, but it's not absolutely onerous. A couple of times when rotating cellular plans to chase a deal (which is trivial with GV), I've landed with a recycled number that received a lot of junk, but none of it was "spam": It was just legit stuff that the previous holder of that number had signed up for. In one case, a recycled number passively leaked so much personal information about the previous person that I could have done a fairly thorough job of acting like them, but it was still not spam.