I’ve gotta rewatch that Guy Pearce Time Machine movie now
Now, More Than Ever.™
A dozen every day? I’d change my number after a dozen total.
I don’t know over what time period, but I’ve had my main number for well over 15 years. I still don’t get spam phone calls. I’ve had my business number for probably 6 years and it also doesn’t get spam.
However, I’ve got a throw away number that I cycle out every few years for a few bucks and I get endless spam calls on it. Apparently I’m getting numbers that people have given up because they got too much spam. Now I’m worried if I ever need to change my main number I’ll start getting crazy amounts of spam calls. Because for the throw away number I just check it once a week or if I need to get a code. I don’t have the calls forwarded to my phone so I literally do not care about the spam.
Having to update everyone on my new number would be just as annoying and wouldn’t even eliminate the spam problem.
Oh… You have no idea how some of us live.
9am to 8pm every day. Calls minutes apart and they even sometimes overlap.
I made one mistake years ago and my email address was ruined. Still get dozens of spam emails to this day.
I swapped to a new one last year, but only family and friends get the real one. I am using relay emails for everything, different email address per account.
I’ve already been caught in one data breach this year but my bacon has been saved by this and I was able to just disable the single email address.
I called Verizon. They blamed me. They said it happens to everyone. They offered me a 4$ per month service so I can block numbers that never repeat anyway.
If you have an IP based phone connection, you can do that in your router.
Wanna know what’s even more fun? When your city’s transportation system leaks allllll your info, that you can’t not give to them because you need the Bus Pass to get around in the city, and all you get is a “We’re sowwwyyy 🥺” email.
Wtf you need anonymous cash refillable bus passes
We shouldn’t have to establish and maintain a perpetual personal relationship with the original manufacturer of the equipment and services we use.
I never give companies my phone number, and every organisation I engage with gets their own bespoke email address so I can kill it when their data breach occurs.
wakes up
Looks at phone
“Do not disturb is on until your turn it off.”
sighs in relief
checks once again before sleeping
"List of Items Which Fall Through the Letter Box After I’m Dead
A letter inviting me to apply for a gold credit card at 17 % APR;
A bill from the Electricity company for £46.22;
A voucher entitling me to enjoy any king size pizza for £4.99 (garlic bread not included);
A letter sent to the wrong person, she no longer lives here;
An advertisement from a bank, promising the lowest rate mortgage available;
Some dust;
A postcard from a long forgotten girlfriend;
A demand for council tax from Islington Borough Council;
An offer to invest in Jupiter’s high income fund ISA;
A reminder from Central Islington Library concerning overdue books;
More dust, leaves too;
A First Direct bank statement, showing a credit balance of 342.39;
A birthday card, (unopened)."
Why the fuck would you buy that in the first place???
And not return it and continue through the registration process
Um, send that POS meat thermometer back and get an analog one?
Why do I need to login to my toothbrush
To verify ypur age. Obviously.
Ohhh you mean that toothbrush.
Welcome to the
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Who the hell uses real data for shit sites like this?
I do. But also, what’s real data? I have literally hundreds of email addresses that all point to my inbox, and that can be disabled individually with 3 clicks
Your actual phone number?
Millions of people
I frequently miss calls I’m expecting because of the shit anti-spam. Carriers have been allowed to just ignore the problem of spam calls since they started because we don’t have a functioning regulatory apparatus.
Actually, a lot of the difficulty comes from regulations put in place because carriers were shit.
In one of the first cases involving Net Neutrality, the Madison River Telephone Company (now CenturyLink or whatever they’ve changed their name to this month) started blocking Caller ID from VOIP sevices, and eventually blocked Vonage outright.
The FCC came down hard on them, and in the aftermath one of the things they did was essentially prohibit carriers from blocking CallerID spoofing, because there’s a lot of legitimate uses for it.
For instance, when I can load up the VOIP client on my cell phone to make a work call, I need the CID to show my office number. Or if someone works at a call center, their PC dials out with a phone number that’s the switchboard number for the center.
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