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my belief that "maybe running my own build of android daily isn't the absolute best idea" has evaporated within one millisecond of inserting my SIM card and discovering the amount of spam my carrier sends via SIM toolkit, which you can't normally disable or stop from being modal

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What the hell even the US carriers don't do this shit

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EVERY SINGLE MESSAGE ENDS UP AS A MODAL DIALOG I HAVE TO DISMISS BY CAREFULLY CLICKING "CANCEL" WHEN IT APPEARS ON TOP OF WHATEVER IT IS I AM ACTUALLY DOING i'm sorry for shouting this is just an extremely aggravating dark pattern

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Related: in Canada, our government marks every emergency alert as a presidential alert. That means they can't be disabled without an illegal build of the OS. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alert_Rea It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't issue follow-up alerts about the same things at 3am-6am.

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Alert Ready - Wikipedia

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it's actually illegal to *build* and install such an OS? not *distribute*? is your government insane?

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I'm not sure if simply using it would be illegal. Simply building it wouldn't be an issue. I wish they would just use the alert levels designed in the US instead of everything being a presidential alert. It really bothers me, especially since it goes off on more than one phone.

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Oof, the US alert system has thankfully been wise about using that alert category sparingly. Literally only for test so far iirc.