I fucking love not answering my phone. It makes me feel powerful like god or better yet
I literally did this the order day because a phone number called twice in 2 days and bypassed my Pixel’s spam filter. All the sites for googling phone numbers are all scams it looks like. Anyone know a good one?
The site for googling is google, man.
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This is exactly as it should be. I haven’t changed my greeting since I started at my current job so it still says the previous employees name lol. Plus I left my desk phone in my previous cube so I don’t actually have a phone at all.
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Newly re-elected New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was talking to a supporter on his mobile phone when another call came in.
“I didn’t recognize the number, so I didn’t take it,” Key told a New Zealand television station.
Only later did aides tell Key who was trying to reach him: President Obama.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2014/09/22/obama-john-key-new-zealand-phone-call/16057707/
Lmao can you imagine President Obama having a call go to voicemail?
Im surprised the aides from each side didnt do all the logistics of connecting with one another and the president wasnt just handed a phone with the call already connected through.
That was the aides from Obama’s side calling 100%. The minister was newly elected, maybe fairly new to politics as a whole? Maybe he just doesn’t like middlemen. Edit: **Re-**elected, I missed that. I guess the second option then.
That’s what I was thinking, surely it was an aide who was dialing who’d only hand the phone to Obama when it actually connected to Key
just thinking logistically, I imagine that happened a lot. Anyway I expect a decent number of his calls were made by aides and he just took the phone after they got through to the right person.
Even if it said “President Obama” many people would think it’s a prank.
Well to be fair I’d answer just to say “no you’re not!”
True, but if you just got elected as the head of a US friendly nation, it probably wouldn’t be quite so unbelievable.
I guess I should start answering… what if it’s Obama?
Definitely don’t ghost Obama. He’ll drone strike your house.
Its a news site but the only place you can find the date of the article is in the URL. Sometimes I am baffled by the weird design decisions people are making.
It’s called USA Today. That means you’re only supposed to read the news that came out today.
Oh, so it happened today. Makes it a lot less interesting now that Obama is not a president and hasn’t been in years.
It says it right under the headline, no? Or maybe that’s only on the mobile layout or something.
‘me searching for it online’. Try not to use the G-word
I’m good thanks though
Without using it, can you tell me why? Is that how g**-gull tracks you online?
What, Google?
what if i don’t use google. you want me to say i’ll duck duck go it? i’ll bing it? i’m kagiing it right now? yahooing? oh yeah i’ll AOL it? you are silly. a silly man. stop being silly
Just duck it.
If only spam callers were unable to spoof phone numbers that’d be great.
I was called by my own phone number once. Nothing suspicious there.
Back in my day we used to just talk to ourselves in person.
You missed our, bro. It was you from the future calling to warn you of your dire fate and how to avoid it.
I would’ve known to leave a voicemail
I wouldn’t call myself… I’d send an email.
Avoid?
Oh…
Man, I wish I could get a side quest shucks
You’ve never taken too many mushrooms and called yourself?
Heh that happened to me too! Very strange.
That’s true but they usually spoof some person I don’t know. So if I google it and it’s some Betty from East Bumfuck, I know not to pick up. Now, if they spoofed someone I know, that’s different.
My phone is good enough at blocking spam calls that when an unfamiliar number calls I answer, and it’s usually a wrong number
This looks like Norm Macdonald’s cousin.
Do you habe Skype, Doc?
Ich habe das Skype jajajaj
I have to admit i lean on the Google call screening hard. In the last year or so I have only had one or two actually try talking to Google. They just hang up
Mr google, please add a “search this number online” button for incoming calls. Sometimes I miss a call because I’m slow typer
I want to be able to search the phone numbers in maps. Searching Google sucks because of all the algorithm gaming scam sites. I just want to know if this number is a local business I might actually want to talk to.
Does the USA not have an official phone registry website? Where I live you just go on there and look up any number, person or company you want. It’s basically an online phonebook.
Not that I’ve found. There are plenty of ways to find a number of a business. But harder to find legitimate ways to find people’s numbers. And it’s almost impossible to reliably find the owner of a phone number.
I think hiya does this.
Samsung phones use their service to identify incoming callers.
I have an s23 ultra, how can I use phone to identify incoming caller? There’s a verified green check that shows occasionally, but that’s really not reliable at all
Edit: found it disabled under Call Settings > ID and spam protection. Cool I’ll try this out
If you answer and it’s a scam then they know you’ll pick up the phone in the future.
Only if you say something. Pick up, say nothing, if it’s a robot waiting to hear a voice it will hang up, if it’s a real human you’ll get a “hello?”
I’m never expecting an image from Twin Peaks: The Return. Let alone for something so banal.
I have the maximum AI call screening option on with my Pixel 8. Real people actually tell it who they are, machines and telemarketing pricks hang up immediately upon hearing the AI.
I just make the G Assistant answer it
9 times out of 10 telling an AI voice who’s calling and why is too hard for even a normal human to figure out so they hang up and now there’s nothing to worry about!
How would one do this?
Move to the US, basically.
Then no.
Works in the UK (at least on a Google pixel) as well but not sure about other countries, is reliant on a Google account+Google services which are kinda privacy invasive
I keep a browser window open exclusively for Googling phone numbers. This is way more common than I realized.
Where do you look up numbers. I only find scam sites
Just type the number into google. If it doesn’t come up with a number from a business or you don’t recognize it, just ignore it. Most of the time I just ignore calls, and if it’s important enough, they will leave a voicemail or text me.
