For the technically inclined, try a partitioning strategy that involves multiple phone numbers. Cost: Asterisk server on Digital Ocean (or competitor) plus a very low monthly rate and per minute rates.
1. One can acquire US phone numbers for anywhere from as low as $0.06 per month, in the area code of your choice.
2. Acquire several numbers (several dozen, perhaps) and when you are using any services on the Internet that require a phone number, share an appropriate number for that partition.
3. Set up Asterisk or Freeswitch, or find some front-end if you don't like editing text files. Route your numbers through this.
4. Write a dialplan that has intelligent logic to properly route numbers from each partition. Give some partitions an audio captcha to solve to prevent automated bots before ringing your real number or device, send some straight to voicemail, etc. Use your imagination.
5. Use certain numbers for a particular purpose. LinkedIn? They should get one. LinkedIn MFA? Give them another, they're sell that out too in some countries. Facebook? Buying a new product? Have a large partition of numbers, and rotate through these plus your personal email domains. Maybe pick a nice vanity number and use this on your resume to track that.
It shouldn't have to be like this, but this keeps my phone calls to a minimum, and I can fairly reliably track the usage and sharing through variosu online services, and cut back on tracking and cross-service account associations using phone numbers as identifiers that the marketers love.
For the technically inclined, try a partitioning strategy that involves multiple phone numbers. Cost: Asterisk server on Digital Ocean (or competitor) plus a very low monthly rate and per minute rates.
1. One can acquire US phone numbers for anywhere from as low as $0.06 per month, in the area code of your choice.
2. Acquire several numbers (several dozen, perhaps) and when you are using any services on the Internet that require a phone number, share an appropriate number for that partition.
3. Set up Asterisk or Freeswitch, or find some front-end if you don't like editing text files. Route your numbers through this.
4. Write a dialplan that has intelligent logic to properly route numbers from each partition. Give some partitions an audio captcha to solve to prevent automated bots before ringing your real number or device, send some straight to voicemail, etc. Use your imagination.
5. Use certain numbers for a particular purpose. LinkedIn? They should get one. LinkedIn MFA? Give them another, they're sell that out too in some countries. Facebook? Buying a new product? Have a large partition of numbers, and rotate through these plus your personal email domains. Maybe pick a nice vanity number and use this on your resume to track that.
It shouldn't have to be like this, but this keeps my phone calls to a minimum, and I can fairly reliably track the usage and sharing through variosu online services, and cut back on tracking and cross-service account associations using phone numbers as identifiers that the marketers love.