oh boy. this is interesting. back in 2011. i had "heard" about this. i had an iphone 3GS and an iphone 2G at the time. the 3GS had gotten ios5 if i remember co

oh boy. this is interesting. back in 2011. i had "heard" about this. i had an iphone 3GS and an iphone 2G at the time. the 3GS had gotten ios5 if i remember correctly. installing the app, it asked me very strangely to "allow truecaller to access your contacts". it took me a few moments to decide no. at the time, IOS had a "parental setting" to hide permissions behind a separate password, like location, contacts, payments, gallery, web, yada yada. i learned that truecaller works on "you give your contacts and in exchange we give you a one way access to just search for numbers with names and not the other way around. over time, it became ubiquitous, with people relying on it because "who saves a contact". now its an obnoxious app that comes preinstalled on all cheap custom roms, shows full page ads every time it displays on screen after a call, it even shows up AFTER you have disabled screen overlays, i assume it gets preferential treatment by these rom makers, this is the reason why i have never signed up to whatsapp or given facebook any contacts access or even 2fa ( old fb account, not logged in 3 years) fuck truecaller