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I actively mute ads where I can’t block them. It’d be annoying but I’d settle for a mute+black box if it was my only option.

I’m to the point where I have a container tab for yt I delete and recreate.

I switched my family away from LastPass earlier this year and went through the trouble of auditing/changing every single password.

Tons of technological debt would be my assumption.

What I’d prefer is a standardized API where the block is done at the carrier.

Blocking a number on you phone just tells the phone to hide the incoming call not the carrier. The call rings through unanswered and then the carrier routes it to voicemail like any other call.

You would need to block the caller at the carrier. Most have some kind of block list you can enable. The alternative would be a non-standard dialer app that, rather than hiding the incoming call, would pick it up and drop it. I don’t know if such software exists.

Edit: dialer not diaper.

I wish resources like this were a public benefit corporation vs a for profit.

Federated also works.

Why is this news?

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The infrastructure costs money. It’s gotta come from somewhere.

I’d certainly welcome an Activitypub version.

It’s crazy how large complex feats of engineering are hard to maintain when you fire most of the people who understood how it worked.