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On the topic of "don't be evil"... My Android phone is marking automated calls about my union's town hall meetings as "suspected spam". Now, I do acknowledge
by vba616 3y ago
On the topic of "don't be evil"...
My Android phone is marking automated calls about my union's town hall meetings as "suspected spam".
Now, I do acknowledge real people who belong to the union are almost certainly reporting them as spam, and there's no way to convince all of them they are wrong.
Or, of course, people who are not current members could be PO'ed about getting calls.
And it is also true that I don't bother to attend these town halls myself.
But even considering all that, I got kind of upset that I couldn't find a way to vote for the calls not being spam.
Searching the internet produced a tentative verdict that you can't mark a call deemed possibly spam as non spam, only a call Google says is definitely spam.
Maybe adding the number to my address book would be a practical solution, but I'm not sure if the number stays the same or if caller ID is blocked sometimes.
I thought about contacting Pro Publica or someone, but apathy and futility won the day.
- schmookeeg 3y agoAre you answering the calls? I could swear I've been given the option to report "not spam" after answering a call from a coworker that was somehow warning me of potential spam. Like I think the option was after I hung up. I can't even be confident in this on my pixel 6a, the sands of android features/ui seem to be ever-shifting. :) but this rang a bell and I thiiiiiink the above happened to me last month.
- nicenewtemp84 3y agoGmail marks emails from certain political parties as spam, even though they are smart enough to know it's not real spam I suspect.