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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...



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"?




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