Or: "how do we discriminate who we give reservations to without any official policy."

I am 40, and I still hate that. But I'm also really far from teenager shyness or "not knowing better", so I would just wait until they pick up and say how annoyed I am and how they can go f themselves with that practice. If several people would do that every day, they would reconsider how they take bookings.

How are you still alive?

So they are now totally disabling copying phone numbers, I discovered today (maybe on Google Search)

That should queue them up quite nicely to follow in Yelp's footsteps!

Yelp waits for a new business to receive a bunch of phone calls. Then they call the business owner and congratulate them on the 300 calls or however many customers made by tapping the phone number on Yelp. Then comes the extortion. Allegedly, that last part, according to a college professor. Who surely just had it out for Yelp which is why he would make that up 😉

heh, actually corroborated by Billion Dollar Bully (documentary). Need all the bullies we can get, good luck Google!

Edit: either pay Yelp for advertising or get deranked, is the deal

It’s a meme.

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/facetime/fctm2cd42547/mac

You can generate a FT link but it must remain active and I doubt they have a number or email with a 16h active session running, pretty much daily. And advertise it on the net of all places where anyone can abuse it.

Browsers are configured to pass off tel: links by a designated handler. In Safari on Mac, the default handler is Facetime, or at least was, for a while.

On a mobile phone most browsers just open the phone/dialer app to handle tel: links. In Chrome, back when I had Google Voice, I had it configured to do Google Voice calls (including for a time, Google Hangouts as the interface for my Google Voice account).

iPhone video call feature

Phone call is one thing facetime another.

As someone who is autistic, has an ample dose of ADHD, and the hearing of a brick, talking on the phone is a literal, hellish nightmare. I can barely figure out social interaction when I can see your face, I can't pay attention to shit unless it's actively grabbing my focus, and on the best of days the phone is about as intelligible as the adults from Peanuts.

Fuck. Phone. Calls.

It's easy to take our experience of the world or how we feel about something and try to forcefully apply it to everyone else. This almost never works, and we just end up looking like a dumbass because people are messy and rarely fit in the same mold as us. Perhaps you feel that avoiding talking on the phone is ridiculous, but that is decidedly not universally true. Next time, maybe try and think through how other people might have a different experience and reason than you before passing such judgments.

I dislike phone calls because once you say the words, they're out there and if you made a mistake you have to inconvenience someone to make a correction. It's such a hassle. If it's just a web form, I can re-read it as many times as I want to make sure it's right before I submit and I only inconvenience myself.

Pretty sure the video part was the entire reason for the reaction. Also, if I wanted to call to make a reservation I would have. I use the website when I'm in a loud place, on the toilet, or other location that isn't appropriate for phone calls.

Plus a website lets me see what I chose instead of relying on the person on the other end getting it right, which has been pretty hit and miss for most things in my experience.

"Peoples' aversion to walking is stunningly ridiculous and shouldn't be enabled."

Sounds different if we choose a different activity. Such a blanket statement is offensive and doesn't factor in disability.

They're already on the restaurant's website, if they wanted to call they'd have done it directly.

It's more aversion to your device suddenly making a phone call that you didn't expect it to make.

Like, say you're trying to make this reservation while you're having a poop in a public restroom. You might have no problem calling to make a reservation when you're in a more appropriate environment and you have all the information at hand. But, you might not want to unexpectedly have to talk to them while you're grunting and pushing out a turd.

"Waah! I don't understand why someone does something, therefore that person should be forced to do what I think makes sense!!!"

That's you.

I don't think it's necessarily aversion. I think people are fundamentally not learning how to have human conversations. It's kinda wild how often at my job I just have to fully take over a call and handfeed the person on the other end information, because if left to themselves they'll just kinda fumble around confused at the concept of asking the question they called to ask. If you don't know how to make a phone call, it's not surprising that you wouldn't ever want to.

I assure the person that has to answer the call does not care.

You tried to make a diner reservation... once in your life? And then gave up and never went to a restaurant again?

I mean, that's fine, home food is best food.

But if you ever try to make a reservation again, try and call them before rush hour starts. I'm sure they'll appreciate that a lot, and won't "forget" to actually book you in.