Truecaller was a royal PITA when it came to privacy until I figured out how to fuck with the system.
1. Anyone that has your phone number and Truecaller automatically gets you a name:phone_number entry in the Truecaller database. To get around this, I created a Truecaller account using my own phone number on a phone with zero contacts and gave myself a fake name(with my choice of subtle cuss words). This takes priority over other entries in the database. Am not sure if it works that way anymore.
2. Anytime I need to look up a number, I sign in using a dummy gmail account that I have.
There were a good few years where people looked up my number on Truecaller and it showed up a very obscene name that would shock em.
1. Anyone that has your phone number and Truecaller automatically gets you a name:phone_number entry in the Truecaller database. To get around this, I created a Truecaller account using my own phone number on a phone with zero contacts and gave myself a fake name(with my choice of subtle cuss words). This takes priority over other entries in the database. Am not sure if it works that way anymore.
2. Anytime I need to look up a number, I sign in using a dummy gmail account that I have.
There were a good few years where people looked up my number on Truecaller and it showed up a very obscene name that would shock em.
I hate Truecaller so much!