[senojsitruc]

I tried that recently with some political texts. I do not recommend. It could be coincidental, but I suddenly started receiving a lot more political texts.

It might be true that I stopped receiving texts FROM THAT NUMBER, it's clearly the same organization spamming me from other numbers. Whatever. I'd rather get spam texts than robocalls.

[grugagag]

I share the same experience. Block seems to subscribe you a deluge of crap. Similar experience with unsubscribing from emails (many of which I never subscribed to).

[wil421]

It’s made no difference for me. I stopped replying STOP a couple mm the ago and just did report and block. The amount SMSs have increased, I get 5-10 a week.

[dkdbejwi383]

are these unsolicited political messages? Where do you live that this is a thing? It's something I've not experienced before.

[eli]

US is blanketed with them. They are exempt from some anti-spam laws.

[eli]

Unfortunately at best you’re opting out of one customer, not the entire sms service provider.

[blackeyeblitzar]

Don’t reply to them. See what I said in my other comment ok. How to report spam and actually make an impact on this problem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41704119

[smt88]

For political texts in the US, it is illegal for iOS or Android to proactively treat them as spam. They're a form of political speech protected by the First Amendment.

But in my experience, they do actually slow down if you reply STOP on all of them.