Found it via this project. Probably not so good to use with banking services, but otherwise could be useful.

  • @kevincox@lemmy.ml
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    23 years ago

    I like the idea, I loathe giving my number to websites. However a lot of sites will use these numbers to then allow password resets which is a serious security concern. People could just request a number from upmasked, then go to popular services and try to reset any account associated with that number.

    Many services won’t allow a reset with just the number, but some will, and it is often unclear when you are offering up a number and you don’t know that these services won’t change their policies in the future.

    TL;DR I wouldn’t use this for any accounts I care about.