People Ask Why Some Root Their Device and For Me This is Why - eviltoast

I am a Tasker enthusiast and when I can automate something simple on my phone I like to. I set a simple task to turn off WiFi when my home network is not detected so my phone doesn’t scan and report my location to businesses. However, this functionality is now nonexistent and the developer has to ask people not to one-star their app because it doesn’t work. My phone is my phone and killing my ability to use it as such for whatever security theater Google is playing at is why I root my device. Anyone else still rooting for similar reasons?

  • Peffse@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I went into a near seething rage when I found out Android 12 let OEMs decide bloatware was completely immune to ADB disable commands. root’s the only method to get to the non-disable xml files and remove that “functionality”.

    • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 months ago

      Then 12 or 13 also made it so there’s no way to access android/data.

      Ffs I want to be able to backup app data that doesn’t get backed up any other way