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Re: Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number

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Post by albertgoeswoof »

bestouff wrote: post #5
sm4rk0 wrote: post #4

Over 50% of phone traffic is spam. Please, don't generalize. That statistic is maybe valid in the USA. In my case (Serbia) spam is practically 0%. There's an occasional landline call or two per month but that's enough for making fun by letting our kids answer the phone and troll the spammers. Third world "problems" (: Anyway, I support your fight against spammers.

Same thing in France. I wonder if phone spam exists elsewhere than in USA (in UK perhaps) ?

Nothing much in the UK, maybe once a month if you’re unlucky

Re: Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number

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Post by mehrdadn »

Question: does any app (yours or others) block such calls in a manner that prevents them from ringing at all? It's extremely frustrating for me when I use a call blocking app only to find that it still rings for a split second before suppressing afterward, and I have no clue why that happens with every app.

Re: Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number

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Post by soared »

mehrdadn wrote: post #12

Question: does any app (yours or others) block such calls in a manner that prevents them from ringing at all ? It's extremely frustrating for me when I use a call blocking app only to find that it still rings for a split second before suppressing afterward, and I have no clue why that happens with every app.

iOS has a setting to send numbers not in your contact direct to voicemail and those never ring.

Re: Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number

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Post by bonoboTP »

sm4rk0 wrote: post #4

Over 50% of phone traffic is spam. Please, don't generalize. That statistic is maybe valid in the USA. In my case (Serbia) spam is practically 0%. There's an occasional landline call or two per month but that's enough for making fun by letting our kids answer the phone and troll the spammers. Third world "problems" (: Anyway, I support your fight against spammers.

Living in Germany I have received a total of 0 spam calls over several years.

Re: Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number

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Post by leokennis »

bestouff wrote: post #5
sm4rk0 wrote: post #4

Over 50% of phone traffic is spam. Please, don't generalize. That statistic is maybe valid in the USA. In my case (Serbia) spam is practically 0%. There's an occasional landline call or two per month but that's enough for making fun by letting our kids answer the phone and troll the spammers. Third world "problems" (: Anyway, I support your fight against spammers.

Same thing in France. I wonder if phone spam exists elsewhere than in USA (in UK perhaps) ?

In the Netherlands, I get called unsolicited and for marketing purposes maybe once a month. The call is always by a human, I’ve never been called by a robot.

As soon as I notice it’s a marketing call I just hang up and if it’s not a hidden number, I add it to my “blocked numbers” contact, which I have blocked from incoming calls on my iPhone.

Re: Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number

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Post by hedora »

I like the idea of having a pin.

I wonder if overloading the “extension” field in existing address books would be reasonably ergonomic. Eg:

(555) 876-5309 ext 1337

Or similar syntax should work with legacy systems to share your phone number (and maybe autodial the pin).

Re: Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number

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Post by soared »

I would’ve loved this prior to getting a new iPhone, but from my perspective the iOS setting that sends numbers not in your contact straight to voicemail does 90% of what I’d use this service for.

You obviously have some useful features though (I do miss calls on occasion).

Re: Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number

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Post by tixocloud »

bestouff wrote: post #5
sm4rk0 wrote: post #4

Over 50% of phone traffic is spam. Please, don't generalize. That statistic is maybe valid in the USA. In my case (Serbia) spam is practically 0%. There's an occasional landline call or two per month but that's enough for making fun by letting our kids answer the phone and troll the spammers. Third world "problems" (: Anyway, I support your fight against spammers.

Same thing in France. I wonder if phone spam exists elsewhere than in USA (in UK perhaps) ?

Don’t get much in the U.K.

Re: Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number

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Post by ssoroka »

sm4rk0 wrote: post #4

Over 50% of phone traffic is spam. Please, don't generalize. That statistic is maybe valid in the USA. In my case (Serbia) spam is practically 0%. There's an occasional landline call or two per month but that's enough for making fun by letting our kids answer the phone and troll the spammers. Third world "problems" (: Anyway, I support your fight against spammers.

It was about 90% for me, personally; at least for a while. In Canada.

Re: Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number

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Post by ekabod »

bestouff wrote: post #5
sm4rk0 wrote: post #4

Over 50% of phone traffic is spam. Please, don't generalize. That statistic is maybe valid in the USA. In my case (Serbia) spam is practically 0%. There's an occasional landline call or two per month but that's enough for making fun by letting our kids answer the phone and troll the spammers. Third world "problems" (: Anyway, I support your fight against spammers.

Same thing in France. I wonder if phone spam exists elsewhere than in USA (in UK perhaps) ?

My parents in France receives 3 spam calls everyday, the first one always between 9 am and 10 am.
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