Hi all, through my experience, the third party apps that are supposed to do this a pure trash. I mean true caller was pretty decent, but it was packed with ads and trackers of course and the overbearing permissions that constantly tries hijacking my set SMS and dialer apps… I don’t think using a third party app is the right solution.
I came across an internet protocol called NCID which is network callet ID, which sounds quite interesting, but strangely there is little documentation and virtually no online community discussion about this.
So I’m wondering what are some good caller ID options available? I’m a private person and I like knowing who is calling also, would like to stop spam. I’m sure there’s a whole world dedicated to this such stuff, but I can’t seem to find the solution. And tips or advice or anything would be great. Thanks
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I never pick up an unknown number. If it’s important, they will eventually message or email me. Don’t hang up on those calls either. If you do, they’ll know you’re there and will add you to their database. Just leave it ringing on silent. Some phones can also auto reroute unknown callers to the voicemail.
Yes!I have heard this before. I tried telling my parents, who are plagued by spam calls, to not engage with them but of course they like to answer and yelll at them or answer and hang up lol
Hmm koler sounds interesting… Any experience with it?
it works fine. i had no problems with it. No ads or trackers.
it’s openContacts that does the filtering, blocking, identification &c
I’m using Yet Another Call Blocker and I think it does exactly what you want… Use it along with your dial app of preference (I am using simple dialer).
Thanks. I have come across that and I was actually going to make a new post about this concern… So it appears yet another caller hasn’t been updated in years, so it seems abandoned to me. Are those even safe to use? I don’t know enough to tell, but my mind tells me abandoned or way outdated apps pose risks?
To be honest I didn’t even realize it wasn’t updated in a long time lol.
I only got it because someone else recommended it here on Lemmy and I wanted to ditch Google Dialer (which would get rid of their own blocker).
So far since I did the change seems to block unwanted stuff, and I don’t know if it helps, but seems that some calls/numbers are reviewed online?
As I said, I didn’t look hard on this, and since it is working I have no complaints for now, but if someone is willing to make this clearer for us I would be glad :)
Check with your carrier and see if they have a dedicated app. When I had AT&T, they had an excellent spam blocker. I haven’t haven’t checked with my new carrier because the built-in spam blocker on pixel is very good.
