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1. cyberax · 1790376232 · focus · HN ↗

   Are you sure you don't have any misbehaving spam detectors? The voice circuits are VERY robust, low bandwidth, and cellular providers prioritize voice calls. There's just no reason to purposefully throttle the voice calls, the bandwidth savings would be negligible.

   But it's possible that your cellular provider has misconfigured STIR/SHAKEN validation and/or some badly behaving spam call detection.

   1. edelbitter · 1790377957 · focus · HN ↗

      Google is currently carrying out a "call screening" experiment on Pixel phone "owners" (mentioned, but cannot be disabled in the app settings). OP is specifically mentioning iphone, though.

      1. nixosbestos · 1790380015 · focus · HN ↗

         What on Earth are you talking about? Pixel Call Screening has been around a while (~2 years, at least), and definitely can be turned off.

         1. edelbitter · 1790381126 · focus · HN ↗

            Automatic call screening is available in just a select few jurisdictions where that would be legal. In the remaining supported countries, one would explicitly opt in or disable the feature altogether as they please. Last month some rapist mentality dev decided that I am no longer worthy of having that toggle in the settings because my consent does not matter. So now the toggle is hidden, the feature is on. (I can briefly regain control by resetting the phone app to factory defaults, but it keeps coming back.. until Google fixes their happy little mistake).

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