in canada all alerts use the presidential alert category, meaning they often can't be silenced at all (though somehow my phone lets me) and they can't be filtered for category.

and where i live, amber alerts are by far the most common. every time there's any sort of parental dispute the it seems OPP LOVES to send out an alert for it... if there's an actual danger though, like a shooter or dangerous weather? the OPP seems to be "oopsie I forgot how to use emergency alerts"... i've only ever gotten test and amber alerts, even in situations that would warrant an alert. the amber alerts usually seem to be for the entire province too? so if a kid in ottawa goes missing i'll get an alert for it... yeah sure i'll be on the lookout.

i think there was one time where they sent out an alert and it turned out the wrong parent picked up the kids by accident. like they were found safe at their house 5 minutes later. does that really need an alert?

and do they need to be presidential alerts? i know we don't even have one of those...

it also causes fatigue, people start ignoring the alerts...

@onfy amber alerts are such a weird thing, I wonder how useful they really are, and waking someone up with them isn't really helpful because what, am I gonna find the missing child in my dreams?

here in Germany I have an app where I can subscribe to stuff like flood and storm warnings and for really important stuff they also use cell broadcast, that seems much less like a feature people will want to turn off (so far I've only gotten test alerts)