I love that Canada's ruling class decided to sent out every amber and weather alert as presidential alerts. I have over a dozen phones on my desk letting me know that a MIRV is about to hit Toronto with air raid sirens. They can even get it without a SIM.
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If the phones don't have a Canadian SIM, they see it as the real category (Presidential alert) instead of it using the generic "EMERGENCY ALERT / ALERTE D'URGENCE". By the way, French isn't even a top 10 first language in Toronto and look how much space they're wasting on that.
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This is an improvement over their past approach of sending out separate alerts in English and French with the French one often coming hours later. I would not be surprised if they've killed seniors with heart attacks just to stop people from being able to turn off the alerts.
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Oddly recent versions of LOS seem to no longer have the switch to block these... 😖
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It's possible to disable com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver with adb on AOSP and GrapheneOS so you probably can there too. We can't add a toggle with the other toggles because we don't want to make selling phones with GrapheneOS illegal in most countries.
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This illegality really needs to be revisited in present day context because the ability of someone in political authority to put propaganda in front of literally every single person immediately (rather than small % in front of TV) is terrifying.
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Politicians seem incapable of understanding they aren't always going to be the ones in power. As soon as they get back in power they forget all about those promises they made about proportional representation, limiting executive power and whatever else they wanted as opposition.
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Canada is already abusing the hell out of presidential alerts. They try to shame people who complain about it since please think of the children. They did more overall harm scaring the hell out of millions of people, although everyone is quite desensitized to the whole thing now.
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In 2020, they sent out an alert about a non-existent nuclear meltdown at a nuclear plant 30km from where I live. I just thought oh that's probably not good and went back to work. Turned out it was a bogus alert. Tons of false positive amber alerts too.
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I'm fully prepared for it at this point. In 2020, they announced there was some kind of nuclear meltdown in a city that's a short distance from Toronto. It was quite positive and noted no radioactive material had been released into the environment yet.
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Most Ontario amber alerts are a non-abusive parent in a custody battle taking the children when they aren't supposed to have them, and similar situations to that. I really don't need alerts on my phone about it. I wish they at least kept to situations where a child is at risk.
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