• Herding Llamas@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Has anyone else ever had this happen? Is this just a joke made for clicks and likes? I saw this many years ago (and likely this exact one as it’s from 2019) and I thought this isn’t a thing. My thought now, this isn’t a thing.

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      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).