Jean-François MezeiEveryone in Québec just wokebn up by amber alert for kinapped kid in Trois-Rivières. Really wish they woudl geofence those alerts better.
Area even includes Îles de la Madeleine.
Xavier Jacques Côté@jfmezei I wish there is also a different category/sound for amber alerts.
The “end of the world” alarm sound should be reserved to a situation where an immediate action is needed like a nuclear plant explodes, a hydro dam burst, tornado, earthquake, …
Over the time, people will be desensibilized to that sound. The day an immediate evacuation was needed, it’s will be sad to learn pple have being harm/killed because they have ignored the alert due to that miscategorization.
@xavsworld The alert Canada CHOSE is the unblockable "presidential alert", and canadian carriers got Apple to disable the alert management menus. There is a separate alert for ambert alerts which can be disabled in USA. But tgis was a conscious decision in canada to make it impossible to disable alerts.
@jfmezei so I guess the problem are the carriers. Or maybe the CRTC can force the carriers/phone providers to let the customers chose the level of alert.
But even with the capability to let the end-users choose to enable/disable the AMBER alerts, I still believe the sound played should be different, simply to allow to differentiate the level of urgency.
And as you have said in your original post, to better geo localization of the alert.
🇨🇦 CleoQc 🍁🦜🧶🚐🌈@xavsworld
My Android offers the option to disable alerts, including Amber alerts. It used to work, it's no longer working.
I'm pissed.
@jfmezei
My Android offers the option to disable alerts, including Amber alerts. It used to work, it's no longer working.
I'm pissed.
@jfmezei