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It helps somewhat, but unless you give a unique number to every single friend, business, bank, store, your real number will find its way into data breaches soon
by paxys 1y ago
It helps somewhat, but unless you give a unique number to every single friend, business, bank, store, your real number will find its way into data breaches sooner or later. Heck AT&T and T-Mobile have themselves had large scale hacks in the last few years.
- prophesi 1y agoI mean it's better than nothing :/ Firefox's mobile mask is only one number, but I haven't seen any better alternatives. I do think I get significantly less spam/scam calls and texts than everyone else I know. But even if you had a unique number per service, I don't think that'll stop them entirely. If you've ever had to get a new number, as you say, it's probably already leaked somewhere whether or not you share it anywhere.