6 hours ago
article ignores the reality that the vast majority of calls anyone receives nowadays are scams of one form or another
they aren’t the simple telemarketer scams of yesterday; many are sophisticated attacks with high-consequence outcomes that require considerable effort to navigate, if engaged.
Disengagement is currently an important survival tool.
5 hours ago
"Robbers are mad that people started locking their doors"
there's no way to tell if a phone call is a real opportunity at this point, and even when people can tell, the scam calls far exceed the genuine ones
4 hours ago
All the solutions have become problems themselves now. Anyone feel in control of blocking spam calls? What do you do? Asking for an iOS-native guide.
4 hours ago
Can try this for unknown numbers: https://support.apple.com/en-us/111106, most will just hang up
> Ask Reason for Calling means these calls are screened (the caller is asked why they're calling before your phone even rings)
4 hours ago
Pretty easy.
1) Have a phone number with an area code from a place you haven’t lived since 2004 and nobody legitimate would ever call you from.
2) entirely block that area code.
That takes care of 98% of it.
2 hours ago
This is actually my solution
6 hours ago
> A new survey of 2,000 Gen Zers and millennials by the self-improvement app RiseGuide
...so a sample of a subset of workers who are all looking for self-help? The survey might be self-selecting for people with anxiety disorders, methinks.
6 hours ago
indeed. Looking at their consumption of self-help content may be my personal single biggest predictor of anxiety in people.
3 hours ago
"and it might cost them" lmao fuck right off Business Insider.