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Re:Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts? by mway on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @09:15AM (#41707943)
That only works if the marketing campaign exclusively uses the number you're blocking. In some cases - for example, political SMS in the US - it turns into whack-a-mole unless you unsubscribe properly.
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Re:Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts? by aendruk on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @03:02PM (#41712754)
Yep, US political spam is unblockable. I receive “wait, you’re a Republican, this can’t be right‽” style SMS messages from 10–20 unique phone numbers every day. The FCC’s spam complaint form only accepts one sender number per submission so I’m about 1,300 complaints in so far.
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