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Unleash the potential of your phone: Rooting your device does not void its warranty (fsfe.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

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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