I use Magisk but I have also heard about APatch or KernelSU. What do you use and what are the benefits of it?

  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    Fair, but I guess my point was I haven’t personally needed those things in some time. At least, not enough to warrant exposing myself to vulnerability like before. Ad blocking especially, since you can do that via VPN or by using your VPN slot if you don’t want to use something like pihole. App + data backups are built into many custom roms as well, including the one I use (graphene).

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      3 months ago

      exposing myself to vulnerability

      Everyone’s security and convenience/feature needs are different of course. There is often a tradeoff. The way I see it, I wouldn’t give up having admin access on my PC for security, so why would I give it up on my phone?

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        3 months ago

        Absolutely, that’s what I’m saying, that I personally have not needed root and the trade offs are no longer worth it for my case.