Subj : Telegram for fidonet purposes
To : Wilfred van Velzen
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Aug 10 2020 08:29 pm
Hello Wilfred!
** On Monday 10.08.20 - 15:20, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:
AA>> But the title of the article is misleading. You ultimately still
AA>> need a real cellphone to forward the temporary one since the
AA>> verification process is via text. A plain landline phone nummber
AA>> isn't going to work.
WvV> Nope, but you do need a working internet connection, with a browser, on
WvV> your connection device...
Ah.. yes, with the service from FreePhonNum and ReceiveSMS, an actual
phone is not required at all and can be triggered on a completely
different device such as a laptop.
Those two above just blow my mind. They're kinda like echomail for sms.
<LOL>. The sms texts are totally public! Anyone can read the sms texts.
But hopefully the one that pertains to you will show up in a few minutes
and stand out.
AA>> (BTW.. the site is a horrible advertising mess with a constant feed of
AA>> ads refreshing + animations + popups, and wasting my data, and ads
AA>> placed within the body of the text every new page-down. The main
AA>> article of the text was loaded but data continued to stream up to 6MB
AA>> within 2 minutes while reading the article, and no signs of slowing
AA>> down before I cut it off.)
WvV> I don't see them because of add-blocker plugins in my browser. ;-)
I had uBlocker and noScript on my XP pc for a few years. But eventually
Firefox disabled them. :( Meanwhile, this recent experience has been
the incentive I needed to look for an alternative plug-in. Found one.
https://www.rollingstone.com/ is also notorious for streaming ads. The new
plugin blocked 66 ads in 3 minutes, and the number keeps increasing while
reading just one specific page. Sheeesh.
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