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		Symbiote on April 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: David Frankel is a man on a mission against roboca... German is hardly niche, it's the 12th most-spoken language [1]. Anyway, Britain and (as far as I know) Ireland also don't suffer from these robocalls. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...

flerchin on April 25, 2024 | [–]

1.6% is pretty niche. Metcalfe's law absolutely applies.

I don't have data to compare between the many countries, but anecdotally, Canadians suffer robocalls at a similar rate to US-ians.

kevin_thibedeau on April 25, 2024 | [–]

It is niche in Indian call centers.

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