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by sashametro 5181 days ago
I wonder if the providers of this service have thought about crowd-sourcing the caller-id information, like http://mrnumber.com/ whose free tier harvests number->name mapping from users address books...
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This would not work because of the sheer number of users who store nicknames, particularly uncomplimentary ones. Would you want your name displaying as "that douchebag" or "bar slut"?