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If someone creates an adBlock/uBlock for phones (s)he will get rich. Imagine having a community-curated whitelist of numbers (plus the ones from your friends/f

• hollerith 7y ago
  How would the adBlock-like software obtain the real phone number of the caller? Serious question.
  • dredmorbius 7y ago
    Wrong problem. Only needs to determin intent and spamminess. Most calls are known. Good calls can be classed at aggregate (for crowdsourced tools). Bad or suspect calls are either known or unknown and can be subjected to workfactor remedies.
• mifreewil 7y ago
  I recently just created an iPhone app that basically does this. It only allows calls through from your contacts, all other calls go directly to voicemail that you can review later. Most other apps out there attempt to use a blacklist, which is basically useless as it's trivial to recycle phone numbers or just spoof phone numbers. Imagine if social media worked the same way phone calls do, where anyone's effortless contact is treated the same way, regardless of their degree of connection. I think for a lot of people, this is a great solution, and pretty much eliminates the constant distraction of spam calls. https://www.myhumansapp.com https://www.myhumansapp.com