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People! You really need to get into politics or whatever and fix those things from a legal side! You really need to stop inventing services and starting businesses for the most simple things in life! edit: Don't get me wrong, I love the spirit, but there are _real_ problems to tackle and you are still working on stopping telephone spam? It's 2020, nobody should even think about things like that...
I really wish this would have come out like 4 years ago. I love the idea, but Apple's newest iOS helped significantly cut down on the robocall annoyance. I'm cheering for you!
The problem I have with a whitlisting approach is, what if it's actually some legitimate and damn important call? When my father was in the hospital close to death I got informed by phone from an unknown number. You get these calls hopefully only a few times in your lifetime, but I definitely don't want to miss them. What's your approach for these cases?
I thought CallKit only allows a blacklist of numbers to block, not a whitelist.
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.
The problem I have with a whitlisting approach is, what if it's actually some legitimate and damn important call? When my father was in the hospital close to death I got informed by phone from an unknown number. You get these calls hopefully only a few times in your lifetime, but I definitely don't want to miss them. What's your approach for these cases?
> What's your approach for these cases? If it's important enough, the caller will leave a voicemail.
I would've been alright with a voicemail, tho.
Interesting. I kind of wish there was like an audio captcha app. If the number isnt in your contacts, voice comes on asking them to type some random 4 digit number. Well it is of course anarms race, almost all my call spam is recordings so i think itd be effective.
A few people have mentioned they'd like this service, where a random digit/puzzle is presented. I decided to focus on people who wanted the most extreme call blocking service but would like to come back to this later.
Just like account security questions. Provide drop down selector/s for users to select their question.
I'm not going to provide my public number here, but if a caller of mine isn't whitelisted I just prompt them for my billing zip code. Now, that's not going to work for every one, but considering who I want to get phone calls from, it's pretty foolproof.
Keep the energy up @davidajackson. I'd love to see you hugely successful with your efforts!
Any plans for Android? Would happily pay for a service like this.
Interesting. I kind of wish there was like an audio captcha app. If the number isnt in your contacts, voice comes on asking them to type some random 4 digit number. Well it is of course anarms race, almost all my call spam is recordings so i think itd be effective.
For the motivated, it's a short weekend project.
The problem I have with a whitlisting approach is, what if it's actually some legitimate and damn important call? When my father was in the hospital close to death I got informed by phone from an unknown number. You get these calls hopefully only a few times in your lifetime, but I definitely don't want to miss them. What's your approach for these cases?
Send an SMS/Whatsapp/etc