> they can choose to not give their number out to people I assure you, I did not give my number (or email) to the spammers who contact me multiple times a day.

> they can choose to not give their number out to people I assure you, I did not give my number (or email) to the spammers who contact me multiple times a day. I'm sure they got it from some combination of public databases and data breaches. Like a fingerprint, I can't easily change my contact info, so here we are. I want the smartphone without the phone. Signal audio is often better quality anyway. Aside: I want callers who aren't explicitly in my phone's contacts to solve an audio CAPTCHA before my phone accepts their text/call/voicemail. This would not affect family or friends, would provide a path for important calls like medical, financial, or government calls, and would significantly increase the cost of spam.