No way, I thought the thrill of browsing sketchy appstores to find the other half of the ACR phone was part of the fun.
For those out of the loop - ACR phone is a dialer app that does call recording. It’s distributed through the play store, but without the call recording part, because that would be against the ToS. Once installed, it instructs you to go find the other app that serves as an accessibility module with access to the microphone. And by that I mean ONLY your microphone. The other side of the call is recorded only as an echo of the speaker caught by your own mic.
It’s a really poor workaround, tho. Without speaker phone on, the mic can’t hear the speaker. With speaker phone on, it’s too loud and just garbles it.
I fucking hate phones with a burning passion.
You should read Cell.
What’s that
A Stephen King book. Pirate it because he’s a complete douche.
What? What’d he do?
Maga for money.
I dont understand. You mean like he supports MAGA?
Yes. Suddenly and out of the blue. It’s money.
Of course they are. Because now they can benefit from it by feeding the recordings to Galactus…err Gemini.
If it’s your phone it makes sense you should be able to record calls on it.
There are some legal reasons to think about. Some states require both parties to know and agree to the recording. Other states only require single party.
I live in a two party state so I have a workaround: Every phone call is answered with “this call may be recorded for customer service and training purposes. If you do not consent to being recorded, please hang up now.”
Either they agree to be recorded or I don’t have to talk to them. Win win.
Well why not just have recording off by default, and let people decide for themselves whether to break the law?
Companies generally do not want to implement potentially illegal behavior.
