The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed
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While robo calls will never go away, validating caller ID will kill the worst of it because it will make it easier to track.
If the US ever passes laws requiring carriers with US presence to require it, that will be the first step.
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@JaredBusch said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
While robo calls will never go away, validating caller ID will kill the worst of it because it will make it easier to track.
If the US ever passes laws requiring carriers with US presence to require it, that will be the first step.
Yeah, rather fixable in reality.
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@mlnews said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable.
Not if you have an IVR that makes you hit a button to get through. My robo calls are zero
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@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@mlnews said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable.
Not if you have an IVR that makes you hit a button to get through. My robo calls are zero
Actually, the spammers can get through that, but rarely do they bother to program that.
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@JaredBusch said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@mlnews said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable.
Not if you have an IVR that makes you hit a button to get through. My robo calls are zero
Actually, the spammers can get through that, but rarely do they bother to program that.
Can, sure, but I've yet to have it happen.
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@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@mlnews said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable.
Not if you have an IVR that makes you hit a button to get through. My robo calls are zero
Or a call screening app. Google's Call Screening on my Pixel has cut the number of calls I get in half.
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@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@mlnews said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable.
Not if you have an IVR that makes you hit a button to get through. My robo calls are zero
Same here. Surprised they don't get past it but for now that seems to be working.
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@CCWTech said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@mlnews said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable.
Not if you have an IVR that makes you hit a button to get through. My robo calls are zero
Same here. Surprised they don't get past it but for now that seems to be working.
To reach Scott, press the square root of four.
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@dafyre said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@mlnews said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable.
Not if you have an IVR that makes you hit a button to get through. My robo calls are zero
Or a call screening app. Google's Call Screening on my Pixel has cut the number of calls I get in half.
Not on your life.
You realize how those work right?
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@dafyre said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@mlnews said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable.
Not if you have an IVR that makes you hit a button to get through. My robo calls are zero
Or a call screening app. Google's Call Screening on my Pixel has cut the number of calls I get in half.
Is this only for Google's own phones? I searched play for google call screening but didn't see anything from them.
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@JaredBusch said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@dafyre said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@mlnews said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable.
Not if you have an IVR that makes you hit a button to get through. My robo calls are zero
Or a call screening app. Google's Call Screening on my Pixel has cut the number of calls I get in half.
Not on your life.
You realize how those work right?
How do they work?
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@wrx7m said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@dafyre said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@mlnews said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable.
Not if you have an IVR that makes you hit a button to get through. My robo calls are zero
Or a call screening app. Google's Call Screening on my Pixel has cut the number of calls I get in half.
Is this only for Google's own phones? I searched play for google call screening but didn't see anything from them.
I've never seen it. I have a Samsung.
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@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@wrx7m said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@dafyre said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@mlnews said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable.
Not if you have an IVR that makes you hit a button to get through. My robo calls are zero
Or a call screening app. Google's Call Screening on my Pixel has cut the number of calls I get in half.
Is this only for Google's own phones? I searched play for google call screening but didn't see anything from them.
I've never seen it. I have a Samsung.
Same here.
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@wrx7m said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@JaredBusch said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@dafyre said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@mlnews said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable.
Not if you have an IVR that makes you hit a button to get through. My robo calls are zero
Or a call screening app. Google's Call Screening on my Pixel has cut the number of calls I get in half.
Not on your life.
You realize how those work right?
How do they work?
All of these apps work by checking the inbound CID against their blacklist.
This means you have given the app developers 100% access to all inbound CID that hit your device.
Fuck that.
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@JaredBusch said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@dafyre said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@mlnews said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable.
Not if you have an IVR that makes you hit a button to get through. My robo calls are zero
Or a call screening app. Google's Call Screening on my Pixel has cut the number of calls I get in half.
Not on your life.
You realize how those work right?
Have you actually used the Google Call Screening? It actually plays a message if it doesn't recognize the number from your contacts list and tells them that you are using the Google Call Screening... If they actually "listen" to the greeting, then they can state why they called and you can answer the call if it's actually somebody you want to talk to, or let them leave a voicemail.
I was getting 3 or 4 calls a day about 2 months ago. Now I'm getting like 6 or 7 a week.
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Pretty much available for no one...
https://www.techradar.com/news/moto-g7-is-the-next-phone-to-get-googles-call-screening-feature
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I thought it had been rolled out to more Android phones. I haven't been keeping up with it since it showed up on mine, lol.
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@dafyre said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
I thought it had been rolled out to more Android phones. I haven't been keeping up with it since it showed up on mine, lol.
What do you have?
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@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@dafyre said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
I thought it had been rolled out to more Android phones. I haven't been keeping up with it since it showed up on mine, lol.
What do you have?
Pixel XL
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@dafyre said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@JaredBusch said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@dafyre said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
@mlnews said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:
Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable.
Not if you have an IVR that makes you hit a button to get through. My robo calls are zero
Or a call screening app. Google's Call Screening on my Pixel has cut the number of calls I get in half.
Not on your life.
You realize how those work right?
Have you actually used the Google Call Screening? It actually plays a message if it doesn't recognize the number from your contacts list and tells them that you are using the Google Call Screening... If they actually "listen" to the greeting, then they can state why they called and you can answer the call if it's actually somebody you want to talk to, or let them leave a voicemail.
I was getting 3 or 4 calls a day about 2 months ago. Now I'm getting like 6 or 7 a week.
FFS, are you just stupid?
How can it decide what to do if you don't grant it access to all inbound CID?
What happens after it gets that information will be up to the app developer. But that has nothing to do with what I stated.
This is she same reason I never used Google Voice after giving it a trial and learning how it worked (it is jsut a call forwarding service). They absolutely don't need to know all the people that call me.
