Has anyone used cloaked? It’s an interesting service that gives you access to countless phone numbers. You can generate a new phone number to sign up for a service instead of giving your personal number. If that service leaks your number, you can kill it and replace it with another. You can also generate a new number to give people instead of your personal one. It’s kinda like email aliases with simple login but for phone numbers. Seems like a great idea to use on dating apps or with job applications. I want to sign up with them but they’re closed source. Idk if it really matters though because it seems like it’s still better than giving my real number to corporations or random people. And SMS texts are unencrypted anyway so all my private communications would be done on signal. Thoughts?

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Cloaked is awesome! I use it for nearly everything. I don't know what their security is like, but the functionality is great!

I heard that a lot of the numbers are reused and you get spam texts and calls from previous owners of that number. Has that been your experience?

have you tried sms4sats? there a few others like it too. Silent.link numbers are great as well.

I’m familiar with it but that’s different from this service. This allows you to keep the numbers. I can give my employer a new number and they never have to have my real number. I can also give another number to women I meet. I had someone come to my door a few weeks ago to sell me something. I was interested but didn’t want to give my real number.

I believe mysudo offers a comparable product too

is it open source? how much is it?

This looks like a phone number version of privacy.com . Based on surveillance-rich legacy tech so personally I dont care that it's not open source, and it definitely has its use cases.

I ended up buying a subscription. I was able to use their number to replace my Amazon account but it didn’t work with offer up. If services can block these numbers, then it may not be worth it.