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[–] danhab99@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

I'd prefer to talk on the phone, you get through way more like that

[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Are spam calls that big of a problem, where you live?

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[–] tarmarbar@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I'm guessing the mass here is from USA. People from EU, where regulations work better, what's your opinion on this?

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Poland here. I really get spam calls, once a week or less. My phone flags unwanted calls as spam so I don't pick up. If I miss a call from an unknown number, then I Google it. I almost never get to talk to a spam call.

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[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 2 points 7 months ago

I'm from the EU. I do the same. I hate getting calls. It forces me to drop everything I'm doing and suddenly switch contexts, which I absolutely hate. So I usually don't answer unless I expect the call or know the number. If it's important they can enter a voicemail or preferably send a message, either of which doesn't require an immediate response and is therefore a lot less annoying.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

from the various comments it looks pretty much the same. I have two numbers UK, and PL, and I get spam calls on both of them. It's gotten to a point where if I don't recognise a number and don't specifically wait for a call from somewhere I just ignore it

[–] tarmarbar@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, i see that. I guess I'm just lucky then. I mean there's this one survey company that nags ppl, but you block their one number or ask them to leave you alone and that's it. And the boring sellers always get flagged by Google so that's filtered out automatically. Basically, whenever my phone rings, it's for me personally and it's a call I'd want to take.

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[–] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Next time you get a unknown caller, they won't be so unknown anymore https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I have a sibling I have literally told to stop calling me who still calls me.

People are silly.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I literally just did this for student forgiveness spam. I use the Google call screening.

[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I tend to block numbers known to spam from a specific exchange, as well as those that duckduck throws shade on

[–] burgermeister@lemm.ee -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nah man, if it's not important enough for a call it must not be that important, if you text me I might not even open the message

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Nothing like a good voice conversation, face to face or not

[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Me answering a call because it's way faster and convenient than only texting like a nervous, terminally online teenager who is trying to stigmatize using a phone to make phone calls: 🥱

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