What does HackerNews think of Bouncer?

On iOS I’ve been using Bouncer to filter out SMS and iMessage spam using regexes. It’s been surprisingly effective to filter out messages that contain non-https URLs:

https://github.com/afterxleep/Bouncer

Hey all, Bouncer developer here.

The message presented on iOS is just Apple's boilerplate. It gets added to all applications using the ILMessageFilterExtension by default, without any consideration of the actual features of the app.

The reason I wrote this app is because I don't trust third party developers with my SMS messages or personal data.

That's also the reason is Open Source and available in Github: https://github.com/afterxleep/Bouncer, in case you want to confirm it's safe and build it yourself. ;)

(I'm not associated with the app, but this is basically what I wish was built in to iOS, and it's OSS, free, ad-free, and implemented entirely on the device)

Source: https://github.com/afterxleep/Bouncer

From the app listing:

> Bouncer a simple SMS and MMS filtering app that moves unwanted messages to the "Junk", "Promotion" and "Transaction" sections of the Messages app.

> Different to other apps, Bouncer does not share, upload or send any of your personal information or SMS messages to a remote server. All the filtering happens locally on your phone, based on your own private word or regular expression list.