the.com/call blocking
the digital bouncer that finally lets your phone say no for you.
means a feature or service that automatically screens or rejects calls from numbers you flag, or that carriers flag as spam or scam.
from emerged from landline days as simple do-not-disturb lists, but exploded post-2010s when robocalls turned phones into war zones, forcing carriers and apps to build real-time filtering using caller reputation databases.
robocall scalebillions of spam calls hit us monthly, still
carrier techuses stir/shaken to verify caller id authenticity
false positivessometimes blocks real doctors, schools, deliveries too