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Re:Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit by osullip on Thursday January 24, 2019 @06:15AM (#18987687)
Really? It seems that it is a very easy thing to do. Obviously you need to grant permission to the app to monitor every inbound call, but I am sure that it could be an open source project that is not using that data for anything apart from the stated purpose. I'd pay for the same on Android
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Re:Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit by marcosdumay on Thursday January 24, 2019 @06:39AM (#18987819)
FDroid has a very good call blocker. It integrates with everything so you don't even remember it's there.

But I didn't try to block calls with no disclosed id. Those disappeared from my view a while ago, so either it does block them by default or something changed on the part of the callers.

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Re:Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit by lsc on Thursday January 24, 2019 @07:23AM (#18988019)
yeah, come to think of it, I don't get a lot of blocked ID calls anymore, either. But I do get multiple spam calls a day, which is what I took OP's complaint to mean.
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