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Developer of RoboStop here. If anybody here in the comments section happen to use an Android phone and are plagued by telemarketing calls from Indian dev shops offering to build you a website, check out my app! http://robostop.org. It's pretty simple, just hangs up on anyone not listed in your contacts. Very effective. Just make sure to turn it off when you order an Uber.

P.S. it's not on the Play Store anymore because I got booted off along with all of the other apps which access users CALL_LOG(s).



Is it just me or does it feel weird to download some random APK from a http site that then has access to my whole call log?


Say thanks to Google for requiring an exemption to access call logs and SMS on the Play Store.


This morning cops called me to tell me I had 5 min to move my car or it would get towed.

When my wife was pregnant the hospital called me to say she'd been admitted after falling in the street.

Surely hanging up on anyone not in your contacts is a bad idea?


I have to ignore numbers not in my contact list, I get 10+ scam calls a day.

I kind of worry about those situations but I'm just as likely to miss a call being on the phone to these arseholes anyway.

I really want the ability to block certain country codes on my phone, 99% of the scam calls are from outside of NZ.


I would not want that for the same reason. It's not great but I deal with them by 1) generally keeping my phone on silent and 2) only answering calls from people in my contact list. If they really need to reach me they will leave a voice mail, if not then it most likely wasn't important.

I'm not sure a cop would leave a message in the situation you mentioned above but otherwise it works OK. Some of the robo callers end up leaving a message but it's almost always 2 seconds or less so I don't bother listening, anything that short just gets deleted.




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