Summary
- Google Messages is rolling out an Unsubscribe button to combat spam.
- Pressing the button sends a ‘STOP’ message from the user to the sender, blocking non-essential texts.
- The Unsubscribe button is available for RCS for business messages and texts from short codes.
This doesn’t make sense. If you send STOP to a spammer they will know that your number is active and hit you harder.
“Block and report as spam” is enough
Is it clever enough to not send STOP to engagement fishing spam? Like the ones that use the STOP message to add you to a list of people who actually read the thing and then you’re spammed a load more for months?
I have been receiving so much spam the last 9 months. At first, I attributed it to the election, but it has actually escalated since December. I recieve 20+ blocked calls a day at this point. They sometimes use one or two new numbers in a day, so I have to add those to the list. Before I had enough of the numbers blocked, my phone was going off incessantly. Idk were my number appeared to cause this, but I’ve had to shut off my voicemail and block all texts from numbers not already saved on my phone. I think I might just change my number at this point, it might actually be more convenient.
I use an app called SpamBlocker from fdroid. It supports regex filters and blocking non-contacts and is super comprehensive in this regard.
I’ve been using Blacklist for probably 10 years, recently switched to SpamBlocker. Wow, what a complex and flexible app.
I get no messages or calls I don’t want.
Same. It stopped most of my spam.
I’ll check it out, thank you. Sounds simpler than changing my number after 20 years.
