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No such thing tbh. None of the usual "extra phone number" services are any better.
Curious what specific problem has you bailing though
they're fucking with my ability to text. friends I've been texting for years, my doctor, my outgoing messages are suddenly flagged as spam and support is being an asshole. Google support is always an asshole
In years of using GV, group texts never worked correctly for me, and generally broke in unpredictable ways - some recipients would get some msgs, others would get other msgs, and others might just get dropped entirely. It was both weird and completely untenable for anything even remotely important.
Yes, remotely important business does get conducted via group text once in a while - is it ideal, probably not, but I meet companies/individuals I work with where they are in the mutually easiest format. That only works if I can rely on the SMS solution in the first place, though.
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wat
It's the copy and paste thing support posts or says every fucking times you try and talk to them. I guess the down voters think I'm pro this weird act they do to make it feel like you have control of your data.
I mean, Gmail isn't necessarily a bad email service. Most people on here probably just want to avoid giving Google more data about them. Whether other VoIP Providers are better on privacy - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's irrelevant.
None of the other options do what Google voice does. There's no direct equivalent. Not that I've ever run across, and I've looked.
Jmp is the closest, and it still doesn't have feature parity all the way.
As far as function, they've got a nice little package all wrapped up and easy to use. Aside from the group text thing I mentioned elsewhere, it's a pretty slick implementation. But for a user base of one, with privacy concerns, I'd rather use something that's a bit rougher around the edges yet more configurable, and more private.
From where I sit, it's a pretty decent email service from both user-side and admin-side, including for biz use in nearly any size org.
It's all about the data, and not wanting to be the product for me - I have no direct beef with their implementation or abstractions of admin-side details. I just would rather pay a relatively small amount of money than pay with my data.