EU alternatives for privacy.com, MySudo or Google Voice

N1b

[deleted] Thanks for clarifying this.

Another interesting service to keep an eye on is https://crypton.sh/, they are European, give you access to real phone numbers (so shortcodes and Account registrations for Signal etc. are possible), allow crypto and work all over a simple web interface. They promise to not recycle numbers and are Tor available. Currently the offer is only UK Numbers, but they are currently testing "SIM cards from other, mostly european countries", so it's promising... Not Open Source, but that's hard to come by with these services anyway...

Edit: They seem to be abandoned according to Reddit, but hey maybe there's a comeback: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/nbo8lr/cryptonsh_no_longer_working/

CyberOtter

N1b Looked promising, but after doing my own research this is likely a scam. I nevertheless wrote them a message to clarify. Will update this post if they answer.

CyberOtter

CyberOtter They did actually reply, quite quickly even (8min):

These are old cases where customers would not submit support tickets so that we could help them, usually people create such posts or post reviews when the service is not working correctly rather than working, hence the bad reputation in some places. I can assure you that we are still working, adding more modems and more features as time goes on.

Still not sure if this is a serious offering.

N1b

CyberOtter thanks for updating us. This makes them actually interesting again to me, I'll reach out to get some information on when they expect numbers from different EU countries. I'm willing to test them out for less critical use cases

[deleted] I guess if you live someplace with no easy access to prepaid KYCless SIM cards this might work.

Many of those in Europe unfortunately.

[deleted]

The crypton.sh thing has been around for a while (5 or so years at least). I've seen people discussing it, but I don't actually know anyone using it. It doesn't really fit my use case very well. I don't need zero access storage for my SMS. I need a number I can reasonably control. This seems like the opposite of it ("real SIM cards that are put into our bespoke modems"). In their defense, they also seem to market themselves as more of "use it verify additional accounts". I guess if you live someplace with no easy access to prepaid KYCless SIM cards this might work.

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