Comment by montebicyclelo

Comment by montebicyclelo a day ago

> I really didn't want to root the phone, but nothing else did what I needed

Shame that rooting is such a pain, and risks bricking the device. (Apparently Google's introduction of an anti-rollback bootloader this month has caused a few people's devices to get bricked when they tried to root.)

hparadiz a day ago

Seriously. Why is using your own pocket computer so hostile to user intent these days?

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surajrmal 20 hours ago

Because the world is full of malicious entities who want to exploit people and most people do not need root.

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- ycuser2 16 hours ago
  
  That's right, but why make rooting almost Impossible? Why they are fighting rooting at all? They could make rooting easier, for example in the hidden developer menu.
  
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- me-vs-cat 9 hours ago
  
  By malicious entities, do you mean the phone manufacturers, third-parties, or both?
  
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  jwrallie 9 hours ago
  
  Probably malware makers? Some phone manufacturers use that argument to explain why they prevent users from becoming root.
  I still read it as phone manufacturers on my first pass!
  
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goodpoint 11 hours ago

The hardware is owned by the user but the OS is essentially owned by Google or Apple. The user is a tenant or a cow to be milked.
The main goals is preventing a spread of "google play" alternatives with paid apps.

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subscribed 13 hours ago

Anti-rollback is a security feature. I'm sorry you find yourself limited by Google - coming from the GrapheneOS user this is the only reasonable secure hardware platform of all the Android landscape.