• Big P
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    1 year ago

    I’ve owned an android phone for over 10 years and have rooted most of them. To be honest, in that time I’ve rarely come across something that I’ve wanted to do but been unable to do without rooting. Generally anything I want to do also isn’t possible through rooting either. Same with custom ROMs, recently it seems you end up losing features rather than gaining them.

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      I would trade every half-assed Google feature update for a hosts based adblock capability.

      That’s the sole reason that I root every device that I own.

      And NO. A PiHole is not, repeat NOT a silver bullet. Nor is a local VPN with custom DNS.

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      1 year ago

      On a rooted phone you can fully control app permissions and feed them fake data for the denied permissions.

      You can’t do that without root. On a locked iphone you control only a tiny fraction of permissions and it will let the app know so it can refuse working.

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      Agreed and sometimes the amount of work trying to find some random radio file to flash because 5G stops working… it’s not worth the headache anynore

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        Same. I still do custom roms when my device runs out of support, but no longer because it’s cool to have a custom Rom. There’s hardly one that I find exciting nowadays.