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Eliminating Robocalls
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#172I consider articles like this, which don't answer the point in the title, and then say you have to wait for Part 2 to presumably get the answer, no better than Robocalls and spam.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
The difference is regulation. The US is firmly gripped by the belief that "regulation doesn't work", and keeps electing people who try to prove that true via incompetence, cronyism and ideological malice.
It's amazing how often I hear this kind of argument. " didn't work because it wasn't done correctly" Why do we humans do that? Why doesn't failure cause introspection/examination rather than excuse making? On a side note, it feels conspiratorial to explain failure as, "there's double agents on the inside sabotaging the effort"
> conspiratorial
Politicians underfunding programs, then suggesting we should cut or privatize them because they performed poorly, all intentionally, is a well known and mostly open fact, not a closely guarded secret conspiracy.
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#174BTW, in Russia labor is cheap so spam phone calls are usually done by people, not robots. I have to keep phone always in silent mode due to lots of such spam, sometimes 2-3 calls per day from different companies.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't reducing spam phone calls directly hurt their bottom line?
Probably not. Most charges are done per minute of talk time. An unanswered phone call would not generate a charge. If people are unwilling to answer the phone due to a high spam volume (such as myself), they're likely losing money from the spam. I only answer the phone from known numbers or if I'm immediately expecting a call. Everything else goes to voicemail. Carriera have an incentive to increase call acceptance,…
So why aren't carriers deprioritizing/throttling/delaying inputs to their networks that are originating calls with anomalously low pickup rates? (And maybe that have implausibly diverse caller ID'S.)
Sort of how email servers blacklist servers sending them spam except they dont have to cut them off, just eg add a second or two before they pass the call on..
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#176This is why I leave my phone on silent 24/7 (no vibrate either). If someone from my Contacts calls me, then I see the missed call and know to call them back when I have time. However I live my life on my time, nothing is ever so important I have to drop whatever I am doing to pick up someone else's call right away. You might say, what if there was an emergency? Well how many times has someone called you about an emer…
What happens when one of your friends behaves in exactly the same way? Do the two of you ever manage to actually talk to each other?
It is possible to leave a message, or text to arrange a time.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's past time for Apple to integrate spam call filtering into iOS Yes! I have 2 dozen numbers "blocked" on my iPhone but the robocalls keep coming. I wish there was a "Report Spam" (Gmail) equivalent on iOS that employed smarter rules so I didn't have to manually blocking one number at a time (that's likely a throwaway account anyway).
Blocking numbers won't deter anything, FYI. Those spam calls spoof random numbers (often using your area code). I've received a spam call from myself.
It does in my case. I have a few hundred numbers blocked and I get a call maybe once a month. I block my own number.
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#178This is why I leave my phone on silent 24/7 (no vibrate either). If someone from my Contacts calls me, then I see the missed call and know to call them back when I have time. However I live my life on my time, nothing is ever so important I have to drop whatever I am doing to pick up someone else's call right away. You might say, what if there was an emergency? Well how many times has someone called you about an emer…
What happens when one of your friends behaves in exactly the same way? Do the two of you ever manage to actually talk to each other?
Texting.
You send a text, receive a text or vice versa. Then you can actually arrange a call if you want to catch up. I have some friends call me, and I call them back. If they don't call me back they at least send me a message telling me when they can be free. I guess this is becoming a norm among most people.
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#180I have had a Google Voice number since it was Grand Central. It has gone on all of my business cards. It's at the bottom of every email. I put it on my website. Google does an amazing, world class, mind blowing, job of filtering out robo calls. I get maybe one a week at most. I get more calls direct to my cell number from random call bots that hit every number with mobile carriers than I do through my Google Voice nu…
Weird, I have a number on Google Voice and it is also the number I give out to businesses and post publicly (any people I don't personally know). The robocalls on that number have become so bad in the past year that I gave up and just turned it off so it won't ever ring through to my phone anymore. Which actually is fine, for how I'm using it, as I just go in and check it every now and then (and have email notificati…
Is it possible you don't have "Global Spam Filtering" enabled? (I can't find the setting in the new web UI, but it's available in the legacy web UI under Settings -> Calls.)