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As I continue to look for new tools to increase my data/identity protection, I came across jmp.chat as an interesting phone service. It seems like a potentially nice way to privatize phone and SMS more, but I'm a novice at all of this and wonder if anyone else has done more research on this matter. Does anyone have opinions on this service?

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[–] dittani 6 points 1 year ago

They are very up front about what information they do collect. https://jmp.chat/privacy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

currently the best platform to receive calls on a graphene phone with zero google services

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ive used it for about 6 months. Migrated my old number to it, due to too much spam. Also set up a new number on it which I use to sign up for new services. Haven't gotten spam on my main # since.

A handful of services do block VOIP number sign ups, which is unfortunate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It costs a few bucks more per month than services such as voip.ms, but it is simple and stable. I wasted a lot of time aligning different VOIP clients with voip.ms which I never need to do with jmp.chat. If you are novice, go with jmp.chat to spare some headaches.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I tried it, I wanna say for a month. But I seem to recall some services that used a phone number for 2FA wouldn't accept the number. I suspect likely because the area code block was associated with VoIP, or something similar. So I didn't bother keeping it.

EDIT: my compromise was to use an app to block all callers not on my contact list, or whose number I hadn't called first. I know that doesn't help with anonymity, but I had to keep my expectations realistic

[–] CrashingMonkies 2 points 1 year ago

I've had a jmp.chat number for 2 years. I have most of my accounts, credit card and banks tied to it. Been very happy with it. It is like any virtual number in that there are some services that won't accept it.

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