When I recently logged in to my T-Mobile online account, I noticed there was a feature for blocking spam on their end that was turned off. I toggled it on, and

When I recently logged in to my T-Mobile online account, I noticed there was a feature for blocking spam on their end that was turned off. I toggled it on, and the flood of spam calls and messages I got every day suddenly stopped entirely. Years ago when I asked them if they could do essentially this, they said they couldn't and that the only alternative was blocking on the phone. This would have sufficed if it weren't for Android's bizarre reluctance to make blocking spam straight forward and feasible. First of all, why no wildcard matching? I resorted to setting my phone to permanently be on "Do Not Disturb", making all text messages silent while still allowing numbers in my contact list to ring through. That approach mostly worked for me until this last year when spam calls became horrendous. Shouldn't DND take care of those? Well, for some reason beyond me, Android thinks that even if you have DND turned on that the calls should still block the screen and stop apps like Spotify from playing music until the call is dismissed. There is no way for the phone to completely ignore numbers that are not in your contacts. Even numbers that the phone knows are spam still do this. I mean, why the flip would I answer a call that the carrier and the phone itself agrees are spam? I don't know if it's STIR/SHAKEN, but whatever that T-Mobile is doing, it seems to have adequately addressed the spam problem for me. I encourage any fellow T-Mobile users to go turn this on in the account settings.