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So... don't use apps that do that? None of the first-party iOS apps will be showing you full-screen ads through that surface, obviously

• jeroenhd 3y ago
  Step 1: set your profile picture or whatever they call it as an ad. Use the free form text entry to customize the add for your target audience. Step 2: start calling people. Doesn't matter if they answer, their dialer will show your ad. The only workaround for this I can think of is to install an alternate dialer that doesn't implement this feature. I'm not sure it iOS has user replaceable dialers, though, that may just be an iOS thing.
• jeroenhd 3y ago
  Step 1: set your profile picture or whatever they call it as an ad. Use the free form text entry to customize the add for your target audience. Step 2: start calling people. Doesn't matter if they answer, their dialer will show your ad. The only workaround for this I can think of is to install an alternate dialer that doesn't implement this feature. I'm not sure if iOS has user replaceable dialers, though, that may just be an iOS thing.
  • setr 3y ago
    I feel like accepting the spam call is far more painful than receiving it. This feels like it'd be an improvement, assuming the volume of spam doesn't increase with it substantially, since it's now much more obvious what's crap and what's not
  • basisword 3y ago
    I imagine this will be tied to an Apple ID and you’ll lose your account pretty quickly if you abuse it. Or the customisation will be limited in some way. There’s no way Apple will let someone call thousands of random numbers showing porn for example. I imagine someone has thought about this.
    • jeroenhd 3y ago
      It'll depend on how well Apple handles abuse reports. If they become too aggressive, killing someone's Apple account (including their precious memories on iCloud) could be a real risk for mass fake reports. If they become too lenient, scammers will strike. For just $15 per account [1] you can buy your way into someone else's iCloud, no manual phishing or credential stuffing needed. You'll need to ban quite a few per day to get rid of all of them, and even then innocent people may lose their accounts. [1]: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3261128/criminals-pay-just-15-for-apple-icloud-account-ids-report-claims.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/3261128/criminals-pay-...
  • vineyardmike 3y ago
    most spam callers use some VOIP hack to imitate other phone numbers, but this will surely require linking that phone number to an iCloud account. I don’t know how spammers would do it, but I’m guessing this will actually be used to hide their identities behind iPhone accounts. it’d really be funny for spammers to suddenly start showing up as Karen from Des Moines instead. Actually thinking this through, it could be used to Dox people too.
    • jeroenhd 3y ago
      I don't know how spoof resistant the feature will be. Hopefully Apple has thought about this, they probably have at least considered it. Whether or not this is doxing will depend on the way this feature works. If it works like WhatsApp (where anyone with your phone number can look up your profile picture and status and that's considered Works As Intended) then it won't be long until every phone number has been mapped. If it works push-only, with new image URLs being generated for each call, I'm not so sure if it can be abused. I'm sure security researchers will have some very interesting blogs about this system in the months to come.
      • vineyardmike 3y ago
        They already have a comparable feature for iMessages. So far, i haven’t heard of any abuses. The difference here is that phone numbers can be spoofed much easier than iMessage accounts, so you can (maybe??) spoof this system.
• Rebelgecko 3y ago
  How do the 1p apps block people's ads? Some sort of ML detection?