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[-] teamevil@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

You can turn them off...I'm a monster

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

The way they go State-wide makes them especially annoying in places like Texas where there's a ton of people, and the event is 400+ miles away.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

The regulation needs to be fixed so that they can make them more targeted. Currently it cries wolf often enough that nobody pays any attention.

If, when appropriate, they could limit it to a county or two, that'd be a hell of a lot more useful.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

It also gets used way too often in cases where it's a 17yo running off with their boyfriend or a custodial dispute where the child isn't in any danger but is a day late coming back from the weekend with the other parent.

[-] flames5123@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

You can’t turn off Canadian ones. I went to a music fest just over the border of Canada last year, and my phone would randomly go off every few hours because my phone would pick an American tower then swap back to a Canadian tower and sense me as “new to the area” or whatever. I can turn off American amber alerts.

This is on iPhone btw.

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