A dangerous game on anything other than Xiaomi phones these days, the only company to provide official bootloader unlock software, but yeah otherwise, go download it from some shady website and not have a care in the world about the most sensitive device you own.
> install Xposed
Last updated 2014 :\
You'd be safer shooting heroin into your eyeballs than installing Android root software from 6 years ago.
How on Earth is this advice allowed here?
How exactly do you unlock bootloaders from modern phones (past 2 years)? You get jailbreaks from the internet and sideload them right? Do you disassemble the binary code? Does it void your warranty? Which mobile device manufacturers offer official bootloader unlocks today? There's only one I know of.
Did i happen to mention the big bad China company in a good light to warrant such disdain for my as yet undisputed comment? Is that the problem here?
As for root, yes you have to install something which is Magisk which is open source and vetted and had been around for around 5+ years.
My wife that has never done it just did it for her new pixel 4a a few weeks ago. All I did was direct her to a step my step tutorial (I vetted the tutorial) and she did it flawlessly.