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jwz Oct 17, 2024

"I'm clicking a cow!"

Today's phone-based video game:

1: Get election SMS spam
2: Block caller
3: Reply STOP
4: Get "you have been unsubscribed" from a *different phone number*
5: Goto 2, in an attempt to preemptively block their entire network.

My score was around 200 before I gave up.
https://jwz.org/b/yka_

"I'm clicking a cow!"

Today's phone-based video game: 1: Get election SMS spam. 2: Block caller. 3: Reply STOP. 4: Get "you have been unsubscribed" from a different phone number. 5: Goto 2, in an attempt to preemptively block their entire network. My score was around 200 before I gave up.

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jwz Oct 18, 2024

"I'm clicking a cow!"

@jwz After I found out you can wildcard block (on Android), dealing with spam got way easier for me.
+13126808*
+1312820*

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47

@catsalad @jwz wait what

@jik @jwz It's so nice 😁

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 Oct 24, 2024

@catsalad Alas that's not what it looks like on my Pixel. Consider yourself blessed. 😉

@jik Oh, screenshot is from Fossify Messages / Phone apps. FOSS replacements for stock phone apps. Great to have, even if you still use stock.

„Fossify Messages“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Open-source and Ad-free SMS/MMS messaging app

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caranea Oct 24, 2024

@jik @catsalad
While my Pixel does not show the option like that either, the entry for 'Phone app -> settings -> blocked numbers -> add number' accepts the '*' wildcard without any complaints, so might be worth a try.

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 Oct 24, 2024

@caranea @catsalad The documentation I was able to find suggests it won't work, but 🤷 it's of course possible that the documentation is wrong.

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Arg à meudon Oct 24, 2024

@jik @caranea @catsalad https://f-droid.org/packages/at.bitfire.nophonespam/ has been working great for me.

NoPhoneSpam | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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