Republicans Want 'Ringless Voicemail' to Fill Your Inbox with Ads - Polidicks

The same party that wants to get rid of net neutrality now wants to fill my inbox with robocalls begging for money are you fucking kidding me.

[QUOTE=El Periodista;52285939]Well... We could always increase the estate tax. It worked for killing the Steel and Rail dynasties.[/QUOTE] Let's hope there's a way we can force it past their defences. Or potentially sneak it through on a rider to a bill they'd support, using their own broken political mechanics against them.

[QUOTE=ilikecorn;52285926]And other people are offering up the fact that companies don't offer this kind of service for free. Either A. You'd have to pay for it, or B. You'd get ads in your voicemail. Either way is shit, considering you already pay for voicemail when you pay your mobile bill.[/QUOTE] google and skype already do

[QUOTE=unrezt;52285540]because robo-dialing and bill collectors calling recycled phone numbers isn't annoying enough already[/QUOTE] Robo-dialing is also illegal, but nothing is done about it.

[QUOTE=Sitkero;52285665]Dude, no We already have advertising aggressively foisted into [I]literally[/I] every other part of our lives and it's getting more and more intrusive with every passing year This is wholly indefensible. There is zero benefit to having advertising and political propaganda forced into your voicemail[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=DiscoInferno;52285682]"Sure, companies can beam advertisements directly into my eye lenses, but I've still got my sight!"[/QUOTE] Did you guys read the post I'm replying to for context before trying to roast me? I'm saying that Google/Apple voicemail wrappers wouldn't be a bad thing, not the voicemail legislation. I literally called Republicans retarded [I]in this thread[/I] for trying to pass it..

Joke's on them, I don't check my voicemail. But it's still six kinds of bullshit. We need [i]less[/i] invasive advertising, not more of it.

Didn't it used to be illegal for telemarketers to call cell phones? Or am I remembering wrong?

PSA: Verizon customers can call *611 from their phone and request that their voicemail be disabled/blocked. I just did it, and I welcome the incoming rage from my mother...

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;52285318]"Let's make voicemail completely fucking useless"[/QUOTE] Voicemail is already completely useless. Like there's this thing called call history and you can access it right from your phone, we don't need really need voicemail anymore. [editline]29th May 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Ardosos;52286286]Didn't it used to be illegal for telemarketers to call cell phones? Or am I remembering wrong?[/QUOTE] Nah. Tell that to Verizon who's been serving me 3+ bullshit telemarketing/scam calls a week since the day I got my account. Fucking cunts. Even better that you can block numbers, but you can only block so many and you have to go through their bullshit online thing that only lets you block like 10 numbers. Otherwise you just have to be lucky enough to own a phone that has an auto-reject list feature.

Cool, now we can add this to the 10 robocalls I get every day. I'm about ready to throw my phone in the fucking garbage.

[QUOTE=Teddybeer;52285406]Texts you can figure out who it is at a glance emails you can filter, voicemail you have to listen to because it could be important with no real preview.[/QUOTE] apple and google have tech that can turn voicemails into text format [url]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207181[/url] [url]https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6209071?hl=en[/url] this idea is still stupid

[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;52285373]I've actually wished I could leave a voicemail without risk of them actually picking up or waking them up before though[/QUOTE] if your friends are sensible, their do-not-disturb function on Android and iOS will redirect all phone calls to voicemail regardless or only make noise when a contact/starred contact calls them. If they haven't set this up then they probably should

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[QUOTE=ShimTaco;52285560]i mean, both apple and google have shown they're against things like these, so there may be a chance they would work together on it.[/QUOTE] Their attempts at "fixing" SMS tells otherwise

[QUOTE=Rocâ„¢;52285593]When can I expect one of them fat cats breaking into my home into the most obnoxious way possible doing the ad himself as the next level of intrusion?[/QUOTE] I can almost imagine them paying people to go around town and slap advertisements directly onto people's windows. You wake up, have a cup of Joe with some bacon, eggs, and toast, walk up to the blinds, pull them back- "DON'T SUPPORT THE GOD-LESS LIBERAL ELITES! VOTE SAM AMERICAMAN (R) 2024!" (insert over-used Colgate swirl pattern here) [editline]29th May 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Raidyr;52285943]The same party that wants to get rid of net neutrality now wants to fill my inbox with robocalls begging for money are you fucking kidding me.[/QUOTE] God, I can't fucking stand robocalls. If you're going to waste my fucking time, at least have the courtesy to pay someone to do it so I can pretend to be the even BIGGER idiot in the conversation and waste YOUR time (or rather money, 'cause I assume you're paying them by the hour).

If you can still opt out through the national DNC list, I fail to see the issue.

[QUOTE=Chonch;52288539]If you can still opt out through the national DNC list, I fail to see the issue.[/QUOTE] Because that works so fucking well at the moment

[QUOTE=Helix Snake;52288541]Because that works so fucking well at the moment[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Burre.png;52288544]I'm on the DNC list and it's done fuck all. I still get calls from telemarketers. Reporting them doesn't do shit for me.[/QUOTE] I've not had a single marketing call since using the DNC. I've thought it to be pretty effective. Do you use your phone number on a lot of websites?

[QUOTE=Chonch;52288556]I've not had a single marketing call since using the DNC. I've thought it to be pretty effective. Do you use your phone number on a lot of websites?[/QUOTE] If you want to get a job you usually create a website and you have to put your phone number on that website, and if you do that, scanner bots will find that shit.

[QUOTE=Chonch;52288539]If you can still opt out through the national DNC list, I fail to see the issue.[/QUOTE] Fuck that, I shouldn't have to opt out of my personal phone number being spammed with ads.

[QUOTE=Chonch;52288539]If you can still opt out through the national DNC list, I fail to see the issue.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/07/07/do-not-call-list[/url] [url]http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_bills/2016/05/robocalls_have_triumphed_over_the_do_not_call_list_whose_fault_is_it.html[/url] The Do Not Call list doesn't do shit. FYI, political calls, charities, and surveys are except from the list and can still go through. Overseas people aren't legally required to follow it (obviously) and it's cheap as hell to set up an autodialer overseas that will crunch through every possible phone number and play a prerecorded message. Right now I use the "Should I Answer?" on Android which seems to work well at blocking spam/scam/telemarketers (100% free and so far not shady after I looked at the EULA which promises your data is never sold or sent to third parties but you never know). iPhone has Nomorobo which costs money but supposedly works, I don't have an iPhone so I can't vouch for it. Apparently it's free for landlines. We ended up just cancelling our landline because it was not worth having one when the majority of calls we got on it were spam/scam/telemarketer calls and we all have cell phones.

Fuck, with the amount of correspondence I make to my representative, my phone's gonna' fucking explode with this adware. Kill me.

[QUOTE=Chonch;52288556]I've not had a single marketing call since using the DNC. I've thought it to be pretty effective. Do you use your phone number on a lot of websites?[/QUOTE] Doesn't work for shit, I've been getting calls form scammers saying they work for a tech company, Put on a Do not call, didn't work, and now we just say we don't have a computer, WORKS WONDERS!

[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;52289568]Doesn't work for shit, I've been getting calls form scammers saying they work for a tech company, Put on a Do not call, didn't work, and now we just say we don't have a computer, WORKS WONDERS![/QUOTE] I kept getting Home Insurance calls for the longest time. They finally stopped when I started impersonating Wilford Brimley and telling them that I didn't own a home, that I "lived in a van down by the river eating government cheese". Now I just get robo-calls about credit cards and fucking wrong numbers from colleges. (so if you're handing out "fake numbers" congrats you must've given them mine by accident. >:C )

[QUOTE=Chonch;52288539]If you can still opt out through the national DNC list, I fail to see the issue.[/QUOTE] Sometimes I really wonder just what reality you're living in that this sort of thing is remotely okay. It's bullshit and flat out wrong no matter how you look at it. Especially when you consider that Republicans have a rather bad track record at doing anything other than restricting the freedoms of our citizens.

[QUOTE=Burre.png;52291988]Wasn't that Chris Farley who had the whole "living in a van down by the river" shtick?[/QUOTE] Yes, so they never expect Brimley.