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Generally yes for stock OS. I like that GrapheneOS doesn't give a shit (and they don't have to, because they're not selling phones):

"Wireless alerts are fully optional since GrapheneOS adds a toggle for the otherwise mandatory presidential alert type. This is particularly useful in Canada where the government abuses the system and sends every type of alert as a presidential alert to stop users from being able to opt out of weather and amber alerts." https://grapheneos.org/features

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That’d be a nice sub plot for a movie. Undercover spy in the bushes has his phone on silent and gets cover blown when FEMA alert is sent out.

In case anyone is curious, this is the commit that implements the change: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_packages_apps_CellBro...

EDIT: For folks with rooted devices, all alerts can be disabled with:

    adb shell su -c 'pm disable com.google.android.cellbroadcastreceiver'

and reenabled with:

    adb shell su -c 'pm enable com.google.android.cellbroadcastreceiver'

For folks on custom Android builds (or older stock Android builds without APEX module support), the package name is `com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver` (without the `.google`).

Au contraire - GrapheneOS gives a shit and actually represents the user.

It's funny - if I found some national opt-in list to where one could sign up for national/regional alerts delivered by email or SMS I would probably sign up. But alerts that commandeer my phone with some loud siren type thing? Fuck that (literal) noise.

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