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0 pointsdewey6y ago0 comments

How is it not because of regulation? Robocalls are illegal in Germany and there are very high fines. That seems exactly what regulation is supposed to do and I never got a single random robocall. I got a few calls from my ISP for marketing reasons but after telling them not to call me they added me to the list and I haven't heard from them since. I probably allowed to call me when I signed up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18765079

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ryanlol6y ago

It’s about the language barrier.

It’s just not worth the trouble for foreign criminals to develop German language capabilities.

German regulation does exactly nothing to prevent foreign criminals from spamming Germans with robocalls from foreign numbers, Germans just aren’t an attractive target.

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