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Comment by jama211 | Hacker News Reader

With all due respect - I totally understand you may need a rooted phone, I’m just curious what you use it for? I’ve never had a modified or rooted phone so I don’t know of any of the reasons you might need one.

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To stop third parties selling your location information.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/12/...

Interesting, how does rooting your phone help you avoid that?

You start to use it because you care about privacy and your data. But now it's just to avoid all the crap Google and OEMs put into the phone. Same story is with PC and Windows. To quote one smart guy: "I'm not in the mood to be treated as a chimp." And that's it.

That’s fair! Doesn’t sound like something that’s likely to get the majority of users interested though unfortunately

Some people are really into security, some people are really into trains.

System wide adblocking, being able to backup any app are the top two reasons I'd still root my phones if i had any choice. You'd be amazed by the battery life improvement you'd get by just blocking ads..

I deliberately avoid all banking apps even though i didn't root my phone, but i have to use Google Pay a lot. So... That's the only reason this phone I'm typing on isn't rooted.

I do have a VPN which blocks a lot of ads at the dns level but better Adblock would be nice

I want to backup my entire phone on a local server I own. Apps, app data, settings, WiFi passwords, call logs, etc. Good luck without root.

Cool

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