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Call connection services: A 39-minute phone call to cost me £119 (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I miss the days when the top result on Google was usually the legitimate information you were searching for. Now the top results are ads, the Knowledge Graph sometimes has misleading info in it, and the "People also ask" snippets appearing before the actual results frequently have inaccurate info in them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Never tried it myself, but what do you think about kagi?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

What are these "Call Connection Services" actually offering? Like what's their official reason for existing as a business?

"We give people fake phone numbers to trick them into paying us money on free calls" doesn't sound like a legit business plan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Back in the day it made sense, before internet existed. You'd call a number and say "connect me to HMRC". Now it's just a leftover

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but there's no law against it yet, so here we are. Chancers gonna chance.