Today’s FCC will allow this, I expect other carriers to follow suit. Shareholders will see money on the table.
It should be the other way round. Telco providers should be fined for any spam call and -text they don’t prevent from happening.
Ik sure that they won’t oopsie woopsie leak my number to spammers and scammers to sell me their advanced protection or something
Let’s call it what it is: a shake down
Let’s call it what should happen: arrests of the corpos that make these decisions
My pixel automatically blocks most spam.
I’m pretty sure the quantity of scam calls I get went wayyy down after I switched from Verizon to mint. Used to be a few a day, now it’s like 2 a month.
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The FCC used to.
Yay censorship!
I wonder if an adnauseam approach could help. Instead of the customer relying on the carrier or manually blocking spam numbers, if everyone picked up every spam call, goes through the automated system to reach a person, says “hello?”, then mutes the mic and lets the human stick around until they hang up.
Sure, they have robocallers that can hit 50,000 numbers a minute, but what happens when every single number answers and gets routed to the humans?
You can bet Verizon has a special secret division to place scam calls and texts so they can protect you from them because capitalism.
verizion was one of the big4 to end Net neutrality in 2017(which was the distraction for the giant tax cuts that trump is trying to make permanent)
I’ve been very happy muting all my calls and instead only being notified by Signal and other encrypted messaging apps, easy fix!
There’s lots i hate about having a Pixel, but the spam protection isn’t one of them
Get Spam Blocker from F-Droid and if you like it and want a bit more filtering that’s also compatible with the app check out Phoneblock.net. I was going to add that you might need to translate the site but it seems to be available in more languages now. 🎉
I hate to shill for Google, but the the pixel phone has call screening, and I rarely get spam to surface. It is one of the few actually great things that Google does.
Too bad it comes at the expense of Google knowing everything you talk about, and to whom.
That’s true, but I think that’s true, even if not publicly known, about every smart phone.
Not if you flash GrapheneOS on your Pixel. :) then only the good ol’wiretapping can get you.
When I got my new Pixel a month+ ago, I kept my old one to test 3rd party OS’s on my not daily driver. I haven’t yet tried, but I do have plans to try and switch, it just has to be able to do all of my things.
glad i switched away from pixels, at least i wont have to see the annoying GEM AI, opr12r
iPhone lets you block all ringing for incoming calls that aren’t in your contacts. Solved 99% of the issue for me
Just left verizon for google fi its so much cheaper
It’s not cheaper than Visible, which has unlimited data for $25/month.
Google Fi is pretty much a scam. If you want the cheapest plan with a data limit, go for Mint.
Why is it a scam
I don’t know how so many people get spam calls, I’ve only gotten ~2 in the past 5 years without any bloatware nonsense apps from any carrier.
Depends on your luck getting assigned a phone number.
I get at minimum 10-20 scam calls a day. How I wish I were you.
the only thing I’ve found that I’ve done is live in an area that most sip trunks charge a few cents per minute to call to (907) area code.
