Except you can't in Canada. The Canadian government has made the alerts mandatory. The option to disable alerts in not present in settings menu (at least on iPhones).
You can disable alerts in Brazil. So in one sense, Brazil is more free than Canada.
I'm Canadian too, and I'm able to toggle all the options off on my Android phone, it just does absolutely nothing and all the alerts still come through.
> 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 :(
"HEY EVERYBODY WAKE UP, SOUND THE ALARMS, THERE'S NO EMERGENCY, SHE'S PERFECTLY SAFE"
Even weeks later, I'm literally sitting here fucking furious thinking about it.
There was a scheduled test last weekend, and I disabled the single “emergency alert” option in my iPhone’s settings. But it didn’t work, I still received the alert, complete with the heart attack inducing sound.