Back in the day - rooting Android phones and installing custom ROMs were such a big part of Android. I remember so well using titanium backup and Greenify and Cyanogenmod and the list goes on.

Is it still necessary to root in 2023 though?

I have been on vanilla Android without root access for the past couple of years and at this point most root features have made it into the vanilla Android OS. What are your thoughts?

  • SolidGrue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I buy my phones outright, so that’s MY equipment. I root it because I own it, full stop.

    If a ROM or App tells me I can’t be rooted then, like you, I won’t use it. I have options.

    Also, I’m the one paying for my data plan and I refuse to have ads leech on my rates. I will go WAY out of my way to suppress advertisers intruding on my browsing. That’s pretty much the extent of my cyber-activism, but it’s a hard line.