These days, maintaining your privacy is a hard task, especially when legitimate companies sell your phone number to telemarketers, despite being on the “no call list”. Introducing Burner, “an iPhone app that lets you create fully functioning phone numbers with limited life spans based on the amount of credits you pay through the app.” Continue reading for a video and more information.

The numbers automatically redirect calls your real phone number and can be used for everything from normal phone calls to text messages. The name, Burner, is an obvious reference to the practice of street criminals using prepaid phones (aka “burners”) to avoid surveillance from the authorities.

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