Google weaseling in

 For years Google has been working to make things more convenient in the way that you communicate. On my last phone they started helping me filter spam phone calls. It was sort of like a dynamic answering machine. Where my phone would answer, but ask the person who they were and then I could see it on the screen. This must not have worked very well, because almost everyone just hung up. So now they've gone with a different approach that seems much worse. Companies who are going to try to call you have to use Google as a third party clearing service. In other words you know they're going to call and so you and the company somehow schedule an acceptable call window or something with Google. It basically puts Google in the middle of your phone calls. Of course Google goes on about how private it is and how they never see any of your information. But this is all just based on whatever rules they want to make up at the moment. Frankly I think it's better to just let all of the calls come through and you just hang up on people you don't want to talk to. Having Google trying to help you weed out people makes you dependent on Google. and it gives Google a lot more information about your life that they shouldn't have. They don't need to be scheduling every company you ever talk to in their computers. They make it sound like they only have your best interests at heart, but we all know they're going to use it for some sort of advertising ploy, or worse turn it over to the government when they come track you down.