I was accustomed to google maps opening the phone and showing a number when I clicked on call. Yesterday it skipped that step and went straight to calling.
I had roughly the same thing happen just yesterday. I was clicking on a phone number field assuming it would pop up something letting me copy the number so I could paste it elsewhere. Instead it started calling.
So they are now totally disabling copying phone numbers, I discovered today (maybe on Google Search)
That should queue them up quite nicely to follow in Yelp’s footsteps!
Yelp waits for a new business to receive a bunch of phone calls. Then they call the business owner and congratulate them on the 300 calls or however many customers made by tapping the phone number on Yelp. Then comes the extortion. Allegedly, that last part, according to a college professor. Who surely just had it out for Yelp which is why he would make that up 😉
heh, actually corroborated by Billion Dollar Bully (documentary). Need all the bullies we can get, good luck Google!
Edit: either pay Yelp for advertising or get deranked, is the deal
I was accustomed to google maps opening the phone and showing a number when I clicked on call. Yesterday it skipped that step and went straight to calling.
How are you still alive?
It went to voicemail.
how do you enable voicemail for outbound calls?
To me that’s so much more convenient, because it’s oje less thumb tap. If I tap a button that says call, it better to that - call.
Also I get the discomfort that must’ve given you
Nah. I was fine. I just felt bad ringing a handyman in the evening. I was gonna get the number to save for today.
I had roughly the same thing happen just yesterday. I was clicking on a phone number field assuming it would pop up something letting me copy the number so I could paste it elsewhere. Instead it started calling.
NO! BAD PHONE!
So they are now totally disabling copying phone numbers, I discovered today (maybe on Google Search)
That should queue them up quite nicely to follow in Yelp’s footsteps!
Yelp waits for a new business to receive a bunch of phone calls. Then they call the business owner and congratulate them on the 300 calls or however many customers made by tapping the phone number on Yelp. Then comes the extortion. Allegedly, that last part, according to a college professor. Who surely just had it out for Yelp which is why he would make that up 😉
heh, actually corroborated by Billion Dollar Bully (documentary). Need all the bullies we can get, good luck Google!
Edit: either pay Yelp for advertising or get deranked, is the deal