>> Disabling alerts is the second thing I do to a new handset
> Except you can't in Canada. The Canadian government has made the alerts mandatory.
Same for USG and Presidential alerts. I disable them anyway - which I can do after rooting. For one phone I deleted the PotUS alerts file. On another one I edited a config file. On my current handset, I disabled the wireless alert system.
The problem is that Canada ignores all of the different categories, and just sends everything out as a presidential alert.
> I disable them anyway - which I can do after rooting
Yeah, I used to root my phone and do the same thing, but I don't any more since rooting is too easy to detect with hardware-backed Play integrity these days :(
> Except you can't in Canada. The Canadian government has made the alerts mandatory.
Same for USG and Presidential alerts. I disable them anyway - which I can do after rooting. For one phone I deleted the PotUS alerts file. On another one I edited a config file. On my current handset, I disabled the wireless alert system.