The first minute of every phone call is torture now
I have never had any of the issues described in this article and I&#x27;ve been using AirPods w&#x2F; an iPhone and a MacBook since AirPods came out.  My issue with phone calls is 1. Robocalls 2. Robocalls 3. Robocalls 4. Robocalls 5. Robocalls<p>I&#x27;ve been all over the world, and it is straight up fucked how bad this issue is in the US and it&#x27;s not like this elsewhere. It&#x27;s completely fixable, but American telcos make money off letting scammers operating boiler rooms in India steal money from your grandparents, so they&#x27;re happy to utterly destroy any utility that a phone has.<p>It&#x27;s gotten so bad I just don&#x27;t answer my phone unless it&#x27;s a call from someone I know.  The few times (like now, unfortunately) I expect a call from an unknown number related to follow-up for in-person business, when I answer 95% or more of incoming calls are scams&#x2F;spam.  This is with &quot;Spam Block&quot; enabled, that already blocks known scam&#x2F;robocall numbers AND NoMoRobo, what slips through is still the majority spam&#x2F;scams.<p>I can&#x27;t even imagine walking around with a cellular phone in 2022 without any of these tools, it&#x27;s probably a hellscape just like using the web in 2022 without uBlock Origin, NoScript, and PiHole.<p>We can do better, and the adtech industry + the telcos making money off straight up scammers has destroyed the very fabric of technology as used for social connection.