[Feature Request] Blocking Numbers from Countries

Silly

I make this request for two reasons:

Scam callers often have the tendency, for me at least, to come from one place or maybe two. Blocking, say, British numbers, from which I personally have received spam before, would definitely be an improvement.
One-party consent states are much more common than you might think. Living in a two-party consent state, this is shocking to me at least. Any call outside of your country leaves you wide open. I am not a lawyer, but routing your calls through another country could even a legal loophole. You consented to a call from a one-party consent state and legal decisions have a tendency to defy logic.

Perhaps it would be a good solution to set up warnings like
"This country/state has one-party consent"
written under a call when you receive them, or
"You indicated this country for scam calls, tap twice to accept the call"
with an option just outright block them completely.

AlphaElwedritsch

I think that would be a lot of effort for very little benefit

Silly

Unfortunately, I am not familiar with writing operating systems. But this seems, superficially, not complicated at all.

You can leave it up to the user to mark countries as "XYZ", with some self-defined warnings. This seems about as complicated as displaying a caller name. And a blocking function is already a thing, but only for specific numbers.
You can simplify it even further and let the user block numbers in the format +44*, where * is any series of numbers. I don't get why you need to be a nay-sayer for a feature this trivial.

However, I would like a warnings and a menu option if possible (Samsung has this apparently) to make the user aware that the feature exists and that the problem exists (scams are obvious, but one-party consent is not). Nudging the user towards better privacy options is effective.

de0u

Silly Unfortunately, I am not familiar with writing operating systems. But this seems, superficially, not complicated at all.

I believe there are several open-source Android dialer apps. Authors of those apps might be interested in feature requests and/or code.

The future of the AOSP dialer app used by GrapheneOS is a bit unclear at present, so the GrapheneOS developers might well not want to invest in significant feature upgrades at present.

PaulDavis

You'll need to satisfy yourself with the privacy docs etc, but Truecaller can block by prefix, sequence, and other. It also has a dialer and spam protection