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Notes from building a junk-text filter, written for the person holding the phone. No jargon, no guarantees, and the numbers are the ones we measured.
How to stop political texts on Android, and why STOP only half works
Campaign texts are legal, polite, and relentless. Here is why your carrier lets them through, what replying STOP really does, and what works instead.
How to block spam texts on a Samsung phone
The built-in settings, step by step, what they catch, what they miss, and the one route that reads the message instead of checking a list.
That friendly wrong-number text is the start of a scam
How the wrong-number con works, why it targets parents and grandparents, what to do when one arrives, and how TextMeNot warns before the ask.