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iPhone The iOS 12 Call Blocker Thread

I'm on AT&T and use Call Protect. It works great and is free if you are on AT&T
 
Really quite surprised at the lack of responses but moreso at the lack of effectiveness with the blockers themselves. I sincerely thought a clear winner at least front runner would emerge.
 
Don’t think people use call blockers much in modern time to be honest. Telephone marketing used to be crazy in the 90s and people used all sorts to stay away from those calls. Nowadays it’s a failed model. Personally I haven’t met anyone in the last decade who actually got hassled by spam calls if I’m honest.
 
One way I have stopped calls was too create a contact called Do Not Answer. I have a silent ringtone and add that number to that contact, never to be heard from again. Now granted this is not for spoofed calls, just normal numbers. Spoof numbers are like a virus. Did this before call block was on IOS. I know this is very low tech, but it worked before things got pretty sophisticated.
 
Does anyone have any experience with YouMail’s spam blocking function? If so, is it effective?
 
akash.nu said:
Don’t think people use call blockers much in modern time to be honest. Telephone marketing used to be crazy in the 90s and people used all sorts to stay away from those calls. Nowadays it’s a failed model. Personally I haven’t met anyone in the last decade who actually got hassled by spam calls if I’m honest.
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You’re gravely mistaken. It’s an enormous problem that’s getting worse and worse.
 
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akash.nu said:
Don’t think people use call blockers much in modern time to be honest. Telephone marketing used to be crazy in the 90s and people used all sorts to stay away from those calls. Nowadays it’s a failed model. Personally I haven’t met anyone in the last decade who actually got hassled by spam calls if I’m honest.
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Hahahahahaha guess you don't live in the US. They estimate in 5 years 85% of calls will be spam
 
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by default all VOIP calls should be BLOCKED by our carriers. if you want it unblocked then you call in and it's the carriers responsibility to tell you the risks involved. it would minimize the chances of the elderly from getting scammed and minimize spam calls. these idiots from india are not calling on regular landlines as they're all traceable.

i literally do not know one person who has called me from VOIP ever in my life and that's what these spammers are using.
 
Hiya , been using it for a year now. Its free, it works, I see no reason to try anything else.
Want a clear winner (in the US), there you have it...
 
akash.nu said:
Nope, I’m in the UK. Didn’t know it’s still that bad in the US.
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It's not about "still being that bad"...this is something new.
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Hiya , been using it for a year now. Its free, it works, I see no reason to try anything else.
Want a clear winner (in the US), there you have it...
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As a Hiya user, I vehemently disagree.
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Ebok said:
by default all VOIP calls should be BLOCKED by our carriers. if you want it unblocked then you call in and it's the carriers responsibility to tell you the risks involved. it would minimize the chances of the elderly from getting scammed and minimize spam calls. these idiots from india are not calling on regular landlines as they're all traceable.

i literally do not know one person who has called me from VOIP ever in my life and that's what these spammers are using.
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Pretty much most enterprise voice systems are VOIP now. So no, not a great solution. I'd miss most of my business calls.
 
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Geckotek said:
It's not about "still being that bad"...this is something new.
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As a Hiya user, I vehemently disagree.
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Pretty much most enterprise voice systems are VOIP now. So no, not a great solution. I'd miss most of my business calls.
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Well I think it’s a good solution for older ppl. They generally have phones to communicate with their family and not businesses. .. and they’re the most vulnerable to being scammed.

The phone calls are annoying as but it’s sad when someone that’s 70+ loses 10s of thousands.
 
Tyler23 said:
I've been using RoboKiller for the past few weeks. Seems pretty solid so far.
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RoboKiller works great. The pre-recorded “Answerbots” are hilarious! But be careful if a legit call gets identified as spam the outgoing recording could be embarrassing . You can control or record your own bot. I’ve been using it for several months. Note it is a subscription service.
 
willmtaylor said:
Really quite surprised at the lack of responses but moreso at the lack of effectiveness with the blockers themselves. I sincerely thought a clear winner at least front runner would emerge.
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You do realize the very first mobile phone platform this worked on was S60 (Symbian S60 2nd Edition, then 3rd Edition by Nokia) over a decade ago. Developers, then expanded to Windows Smartphone Edition or PocketPC Phone Edition and then when those platforms died out ... took some time for iOS and Android to get their native versions. Heck even BB10 had one/two which failed.

Now with both reining platforms having native similar options it doesn't give developers full access they require.

seems some options are there which I'm also looking for in iOS.
 
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