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From other areas where spam is prevalent, I think it's an arms race issue. Sure, right now, that spam that's identical every time would be easy to detect and b
by Night_Thastus 4y ago
From other areas where spam is prevalent, I think it's an arms race issue.
Sure, right now, that spam that's identical every time would be easy to detect and block. But if it's blocked, they start adding variation. Block that too and they get more and more creative. Every time a way to block the spam is found, the spammers just get more creative with getting around it. It's an arms race, and is essentially un-beatable because the spammers outnumber those trying to stop them by a magnitude or two.
- Drakim 4y agoI just have a hard time believing that's really what's gonna happen. I'm a 34 year old man living in a western country and I have not gotten one robot spam call nor spam text message in my life. I've gotten 5 fake Microsoft support calls, but always from a real human pretending to work for Microsoft.
- pradn 4y agoYes, but we've gotten quite good at blocking email spam. So much so that it's basically a solved problem for regular users using GMail or Outlook. There's no reason we can't achieve the same with text and phone call blocking. My iPhone is pretty accurate when it classifies incoming calls as "Spam Likely".
- ruined 4y agoyou're right. we should just give up, and allow ourselves to be overwhelmed now, instead of wasting all that time pointlessly resisting the inevitable. none of this will ever get better
- Night_Thastus 4y agoThat's not what I meant. I meant there's no silver bullet that stops all spam forever. There's no easy solutions to the problem. It's an uphill battle and the best you can hope for is to block the majority of it with a lot of continuous effort.