• Big P@feddit.uk
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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.

    • TheFriendlyArtificer@beehaw.org
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      1 year 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.