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I despise the modern phones and internet

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james_s:
Robocalls have completely ruined the telephone as a means of communication. I finally set my phone so that if a number is not in my contact list it doesn't even ring.

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: james_s on December 17, 2022, 07:27:02 pm ---Robocalls have completely ruined the telephone as a means of communication. I finally set my phone so that if a number is not in my contact list it doesn't even ring.

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Yep.

Kasper:
I use call control.  When people phone me, they are told to press a number before the call gets through.  Works well.

It comes with a webform to enter safe numbers that bypass it.

Red Squirrel:

--- Quote from: james_s on December 17, 2022, 07:27:02 pm ---Robocalls have completely ruined the telephone as a means of communication. I finally set my phone so that if a number is not in my contact list it doesn't even ring.

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I never get any of that on my cell but when I had a landline it was bad.  I wonder if the DNCL system just works better on the cell network here.  I do get the odd telemarketing call but it's from companies I do business with, trying to sell me more stuff so those don't get blocked, and I can't actually block them because they could potentially call for a legit reason.   Telus is bad for that. I have my alarm system through them because they bought out ADT so now they keep calling me to switch my cell plan over. 

Red Squirrel:

--- Quote from: Kasper on December 17, 2022, 04:21:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: james_s on December 17, 2022, 01:49:16 am ---
I'm not a fan of stores that give you a discounted price if you give them your phone number.

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I often tell businesses I dont like giving out my phone number and they always promise to protect it as if they have any idea what that means.

I recently got a new phone number for my business and it got so many junk calls and texts that I changed it.  Repeated that a few times and had similar results each time.

Makes me glad I've resisted peoples attempts to take my personal phone number over the years.  It doesn't get nearly as much of that garbage.

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I noticed some places often ask for a postal code, so I always give them a fake one that ends in 1A1.  Funny thing is, I've seen it on web forms etc where it prefills that postal code for me because the systems think that's my real postal code. Shows how much our data really gets shared around - even false data!

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