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It would be nice to just have an extension.

like "at the tone press 42 to get through"

except you don't need to provide the instructions, people know to do it.

You can do that pretty easy with twilio. It would probably even be free or effectively free based on mere personal levels of calls.

Google voice screening is sort of like that.

Unfortunately I'm one of those privacy-conscious people that would only accept this as a local app on my phone, without a surveillance capitalism giant being able to eavesdrop all my calls as a man-in-the-middle as a side effect.

I only use my Google voice number for basically non-personal contacts, like my bank or shopping, etc. That way when you get an unknown call from a business, it will usually be coming from an unknown number and thus the screening will be in place.

The screening on my personal phone is such that I will have any person that I expect to be calling already in my directory so that will be identifiable immediately