Let’s Destroy Robocalls

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Post by howard941 » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 5:16 PM UTC

Let’s Destroy Robocalls
nytimes.com

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Post by whatislovecraft » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 5:25 PM UTC

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#3

Post by gonehome » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 5:26 PM UTC

What confuses me about this is that Apple could solve this in two seconds by allowing contact whitelists where only incoming calls in your contacts are accepted and everything else is sent to voicemail or dropped.

Is there a law against this or something?

Nomorobo, Robokiller, Hiya all do an okay job as blacklisting applications but that seems like the wrong way to go about it.

Some suggest using do not disturb to do this, but that blocks all notifications (including from texts) so it is not a viable solution.

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Post by Chazprime » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 5:28 PM UTC

What Apple & Google really should do is build the functionality of Hiya or Youmail into their mobile OSes.

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Post by edm0nd » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 5:29 PM UTC

https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/

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Post by sys_64738 » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 5:30 PM UTC

I use Callcentric VoIP and whitelist known numbers. For all others, they are told to press a random digit before it connects.

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Post by ars » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 5:30 PM UTC

gonehome wrote: post #3

What confuses me about this is that Apple could solve this in two seconds by allowing contact whitelists where only incoming calls in your contacts are accepted and everything else is sent to voicemail or dropped. Is there a law against this or something? Nomorobo, Robokiller, Hiya all do an okay job as blacklisting applications but that seems like the wrong way to go about it. Some suggest using do not disturb to do…

You can already do that in Android (which is the majority of people). Not solved.

People have phones that are not smart phones.

Caller ID is frequency faked.

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Post by pbhjpbhj » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 5:31 PM UTC

Chazprime wrote: post #4

What Apple & Google really should do is build the functionality of Hiya or Youmail into their mobile OSes.

I imagine the people doing robo calls spend an insane amount of money with Google?

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Post by dragonwriter » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 5:32 PM UTC

whatislovecraft wrote: post #2

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> We all, left and right, agree that Trump is worse than robocalls.

I'm having trouble imagining Republicans have have >89% support for robocalls, so I have doubts of your proposed left-right consensus on Trump vs. robocalls.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ra...

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 5:32 PM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #9

whatislovecraft wrote: post #2

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> We all, left and right, agree that Trump is worse than robocalls. I'm having trouble imagining Republicans have have >89% support for robocalls, so I have doubts of your proposed left-right consensus on Trump vs. robocalls. https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ra...

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