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I've just stopped answering my phone altogether. If something is important enough the person calling should leave a voicemail.
I've just stopped answering my phone altogether. If something is important enough the person calling should leave a voicemail.
I always answer the call and then joyfully "block/report spam" the number in the Android dialer. Being able to do something to fight back is satisfying enough that I don't ignore the call. I did just switch to T-Mobile and they pass "SCAM LIKELY" as the caller name so I may start declining those.
having a phone number will go the way of the landline same with email addresses -- this is some combination of your identity and a license to spam you spam protection is the main feature of gmail because email wasn't designed with fraud in mind -- an email system rebuilt from the ground up for 2019 would be safe for medical information, receipts, not be the giant password reset security hole that email currently is,…
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I have a pretty stupid bot set up with Asterisk. I think the record is 17 minutes, and the bot even repeated the script. When I get bored I put up some calls: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYyYngFvpbNqsAhpAI6DoeA
I love this. You wouldn't happen to have a blog post that details your setup?
having a phone number will go the way of the landline same with email addresses -- this is some combination of your identity and a license to spam you spam protection is the main feature of gmail because email wasn't designed with fraud in mind -- an email system rebuilt from the ground up for 2019 would be safe for medical information, receipts, not be the giant password reset security hole that email currently is,…
I suppose “social networks” are the replacement, you’re exchanging getting spammed by random actors you don’t know to a single actor (the social network).
This is an economic problem not a technical one. We simply need to make it unprofitable to wholesale spam call citizens of the wealthy first-world. Every outbound call should cost $1 to the terminating carrier. ATT, Centurylink, Etc. Recipients can mark spam calls (*69, an app, whatever) and the dollar is split between the carrier and consumer. After 60 days the money is returned for calls not marked as spam. No call…
This is an economic problem not a technical one. We simply need to make it unprofitable to wholesale spam call citizens of the wealthy first-world. Every outbound call should cost $1 to the terminating carrier. ATT, Centurylink, Etc. Recipients can mark spam calls (*69, an app, whatever) and the dollar is split between the carrier and consumer. After 60 days the money is returned for calls not marked as spam. No call…
As this forum attests, this commercial activity is destroying the worldwide utility of a vital communications channel for everyone.
I've owned a landline phone that had a blacklisting feature. A little useful, except everyone got one shot ... until the available memory slots were used up. I bought it.
Why any phone with a CPU would not offer a whitelisting option is a mystery. Not on the list ... zero attention paid.
having a phone number will go the way of the landline same with email addresses -- this is some combination of your identity and a license to spam you spam protection is the main feature of gmail because email wasn't designed with fraud in mind -- an email system rebuilt from the ground up for 2019 would be safe for medical information, receipts, not be the giant password reset security hole that email currently is,…
So then how would people reach me? Ignoring snail-mail, all means of reaching me involve either my phone number or email address.