JMP.chat VS Firefox Relay

Why do you need a German phone number? Many countries let anyone have a phone number, with no proof of address or other identifying information. Just use one of those numbers instead. One example service is https://jmp.chat/ but there are many others. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Https://jmp.chat/ has been great for me, uses bandwidth behind the scenes and wraps the experience in a nice XMPP UX. Calls and texts work, only issues I've run into are the usual some services don't accept VOIP numbers, and group texts > 10 people I can receive but not send messages (bandwidth provider limitation AFAIK). Bonus is that their stack is all open source and since it's XMPP you can use whatever clients... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

TLDR - I want to be able to take a bunch of sim cards, and use them to forward phones and SMS's to my actual phone. This would enable me to easily split my phone numbers up to multiple services without relying on third party hosts like jmp.chat or voip.ms. Another key tenant is that I want to avoid doing the calls and SMS's themselves over cellular - instead, wanting to rely on wifi-calling (VoWifi) - The point of... Source: 6 months ago

You might try https://jmp.chat. I'm very happy with them, I get SMS for everything I've tried(though I haven't tried everything/much). - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Lol. Yeah, expect no privacy on the number. SMS isn't encrypted and its a pretty insecure and outdated technology nowadays, and if you're using it through Google Voice, Google will 100% have full access to your texts and calls through the number, which is obviously pretty horrible for privacy, especially with Google's terrible reputation and track record. If privacy is your concern, I'd recommend JMP. Its very... Source: 10 months ago

Other services like this one: addy.io or relay.firefox.com (no pgp, as I remember). - Source: dev.to / 1 day ago

Firefox Relay is a handy assistant to at least stymie email tracking and is neatly integrated with the browser. The free tier gets you a few masked emails that forward to your actual inbox. You can't reply through the masked email without paying, but that might not be necessary for all. It feels like retaining some semblance of privacy is a losing battle. Data clean rooms are industry standard now and many... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

That isn't alarmist, but almost all privacy features in Brave are already in Firefox as well. Looking at this page: - Chromium customizations: Not necessary in Firefox - Client-side encryption for Brave Sync: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-firefox-sync-keeps-your-data-safe-even-if-tls-fails - DeAMPing: I think AMP has been dead for a few years now - Limiting network server calls: I think this is a bit... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

> In a sense, it sounds like the advice of the services is less subscribing to them than trying not to have a few e-mails that map to your personal identity. Firefox Relay is a great way to do that :) https://relay.firefox.com Integrating that with Monitor is pretty high on at least my personal wish list. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

> In what ways has mozilla meaningfully dared to try and expand their revenue streams? I think that Mozilla VPN is pretty nice. It's based on Mullvad VPN, so they seem to know their audience (given that Mullvad has a pretty okay reputation among many tech savvy or privacy conscious folks, a lot of which probably use something like Firefox as well): https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/vpn/ I guess there's also... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago