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Welcome to America. I get 20 calls per day on my cell phone with spoofed numbers. I don't even answer the phone if I don't know the number anymore.

stock_toaster 6y ago
Indeed. In addition to that (if that wasn't enough!), I've started getting an increasing amount of spam texts in the last couple of months too.
godelski 6y ago
I suggest signing up for the DNC list[0]. It will at least stop legally operations which sometimes sell their list to more shady operations. It at least helps. I often report calls too. Maybe one of you all that is good at phone apps could make one to fill out the forum automatically. I'm not sure why this already isn't a feature in Google considering they screen calls. [0] https://www.donotcall.gov/ https://www.donotcall.gov/
missedthecue 6y ago
20 per day? I maybe get 2 per week!
BLKNSLVR 6y ago
Paraphrasing TuringNYC[0] from another recent HN thread[1]: > Just a decade ago, SMS messages in the US cost 10 to 25 cents per SMS. You also got charged for spam SMS. Prices were completely disjointed from the reality of underlying costs (zero for the telcos). > In the following ten years, the tech giants sweeped in, competed, provided a better service, with better cross-platform support, for zero dollar immediate cost to the end customer -- gained a massive following (think whatsapp), and are now vilified for their "monopoly" and the "harm" it has caused.) The only thing holding back a messaging-style disruption of voice services is the universal inter-operability of phone numbers. Various apps can be used for voice calls within the apps themselves but they're not compatible with a phone call from a landline for restaurant booking confirmations and such. Google Voice achieves this and Twilio got a mention in the other thread, but I'm not sure what else is out there (I'm not in the US so it's not a problem I need to solve for myself). Seems that US telco's are still asleep at the wheel in regards to their consumer-level services and will devolve into providing purely network connectivity and losing entirely any of the services that sit atop the network. What's ridiculous is that such things have become necessary. That there's no (enforced) legislation to prevent selling any and all contact information that passes a receptionists desk. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TuringNYC https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TuringNYC [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24749971 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24749971

stock_toaster 6y ago

Indeed. In addition to that (if that wasn't enough!), I've started getting an increasing amount of spam texts in the last couple of months too.

godelski 6y ago

I suggest signing up for the DNC list[0]. It will at least stop legally operations which sometimes sell their list to more shady operations. It at least helps. I often report calls too. Maybe one of you all that is good at phone apps could make one to fill out the forum automatically. I'm not sure why this already isn't a feature in Google considering they screen calls. [0] https://www.donotcall.gov/ https://www.donotcall.gov/

missedthecue 6y ago

20 per day? I maybe get 2 per week!

BLKNSLVR 6y ago

Paraphrasing TuringNYC[0] from another recent HN thread[1]: > Just a decade ago, SMS messages in the US cost 10 to 25 cents per SMS. You also got charged for spam SMS. Prices were completely disjointed from the reality of underlying costs (zero for the telcos). > In the following ten years, the tech giants sweeped in, competed, provided a better service, with better cross-platform support, for zero dollar immediate cost to the end customer -- gained a massive following (think whatsapp), and are now vilified for their "monopoly" and the "harm" it has caused.) The only thing holding back a messaging-style disruption of voice services is the universal inter-operability of phone numbers. Various apps can be used for voice calls within the apps themselves but they're not compatible with a phone call from a landline for restaurant booking confirmations and such. Google Voice achieves this and Twilio got a mention in the other thread, but I'm not sure what else is out there (I'm not in the US so it's not a problem I need to solve for myself). Seems that US telco's are still asleep at the wheel in regards to their consumer-level services and will devolve into providing purely network connectivity and losing entirely any of the services that sit atop the network. What's ridiculous is that such things have become necessary. That there's no (enforced) legislation to prevent selling any and all contact information that passes a receptionists desk. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TuringNYC https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TuringNYC [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24749971 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24749971