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Somebody please stop the spam texts

What HN thinks

A nation united in its desire to text STOP, and divided only on whether doing so makes it worse.

Politicians exempted themselves
Political campaigns and PACs are carved out of anti-spam rules, and lists get resold to new entities, so opting out never truly sticks.
Replying STOP: helps or hurts
Some say STOP works per sender under FCC rules; others say it confirms a live number and just feeds new lists.
Filter or whitelist it yourself
Since regulation is weak or unenforced, users rely on unknown-sender screening, whitelists, filtering apps, or future local AI classifiers.

Consensus: Most agree US political and commercial text spam is out of control and current law or enforcement fails to stop it; Europeans note strong regulation like GDPR largely prevents it.

Recommended in the comments

SpamBlocker ↗ (tool): Highly configurable and reportedly 'gave my phone back' once set up.
Hail ↗ (tool): Prevents marketing notifications by keeping apps frozen until explicitly opened.
Bouncer ↗ (tool): Suggested as a text spam filter for iPhone users.
Robokiller (service): One commenter said it blocks about 95% of spam.
Google Pixel (product): A switcher reported far less spam after moving from iPhone.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 4 hours ago.

Points: 92
Comments: 115
Best rank: #4
Posted: 2026-10-26 by npilk
Category: Culture society

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