The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed
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The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed
Like spam, we'll be able to manage it but not eliminate it.
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. That's despite promises from the telecom industry and the US government that solutions would be coming. Much like the firehose of spam that made email almost unusable in the late 1990s, robocalls have made people in the US wary of picking up their cell phones and landlines. In fact, email spam offers a useful analogy: a scourge that probably can't be eliminated but can be effectively managed. -
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
