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		cglong on July 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number ... > Compare this with, say, Google. Google Messages proactively detects spam texts and sends them to a spam folder, so I don't get notifications about these messages at all :)

gnopgnip on July 1, 2022 [–]

Google voice has a poor shaken stir implementation that only blocks the most egregious spam calls and sms and does not let users choose to be more strict. It also does not support blocking phone numbers by pattern/prefix.

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