Re: Need Info on spam blocking app for cell phones

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 01:22:40 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

 
Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
 

VanguardLH wrote:
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<sam@invalid.com> wrote:
 

What is the app many people have on their cell phones that requires a
caller to tap in two numbers in order to have the other party answer?

 
You sure you aren't asking about call screening which is a feature of
the telco/cellular service provider?

 
Or a feature of Android. Call Screening is on my Pixel phone, and
from the descriptive text in its settings I'm pretty sure this is not
something from my provider, Visible.

 
It isn't a feature of Google's Phone app?

Maybe I wasn't clear enough. It's _not_ a feature of my
"telco/cellular service provider", yet I still have it through
Android, or more specifically through the Phone app.

Call screening by an app on your phone does not obviate a call screening
feature with your cellular service.

Sure, but that statement is not equivalent to "the only way to get
call screening is through your 'telco/cellular service provider'."

You replied to (I think) the OP with "call screening which is a
feature of the telco/cellular service provider". I was just pointing
out that there is at least one more source of that feature. Given how
hard many cell service providers are to deal with, it seems that
people who want call screening would want to know it's worth looking
for in their Phone app. As you point out, it would have been more
helpful if I had said "phone app" instead of the vaguer "Android."

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