I think there should be a disposable email address and disposable phone numbers section on the website

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#1

For example I use 10minutemail.com to register to websites without using my real ID but I don’t think it is open source and if you go on the website it is full of trackers, their privacy policy is good but very very short so it could be untrustworthy.

I think a section on the website could recommend some open source trustworthy alternatives and also use cases.

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#2

Thats why there is help section, in case you want service or already have one but want hear thoughts. well, just post there.
Also, i not consider privacy policy of disposable emails because it already no know its you so yeah and phone numbers (like sms24.me) kinda same

#3

Could you open an issue? Either https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/ or https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#contributing-via-email

#4

Hello,

I made an online service for disposable email address and it is open source.

The service at: https://www.joyabo.com/

The code available at Github: https://github.com/joyabo/disposable-mailbox

I’m not build it from zero, it is a forked from other repository.

Thank you.

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#5

Already existing here : https://www.privacytools.io/providers/email/#cloaking

Regarding disposable phone numbers it’s the kind of thing which was asked 50 times every day on the privacytools.io subreddit (when I was still on Reddit back then) and I don’t think there is a perfect answer to that. On one side you have plenty of shady websites offering or selling temporary numbers but you don’t know who can read the sms received on those “shaddy” numbers. On an other side you have “trusted” (that being relative here of course) VoIp providers but once you go toward an official VoIp provider it’s a paid service (surprisingly a lot of people don’t want to pay for a phone number) and you also have to give all your informations to the VoIp provider to register with him (the law regarding new phone number registration and calls for voip providers is strict). Which means that at the end either it’s a shaddy thing or it’s a thing which is not private/anonymous at all because you have to register your personal infos with it. So I don’t see how a “trusted temporary phone number” section could exist on privacytools.io.

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#6

Just my opinion, but for anything to be listed as a category, there should be at least 3 solid options. Those 3 would need to be on the level of service providers listed in any other category (privacy policies, technical analysis, et al)

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