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0 pointsdns_snek1y ago0 comments

> I dunno isn't this why Android users root their phones?

No, because it would be like using dynamite to drill a small hole in the wall - effectively destroying the platform's entire security model as well as locking yourself out of vital apps (finance/banking), and many non-vital apps that pretend they need the same level of security and refuse to work on rooted devices.

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ToucanLoucan1y ago· 2 in thread

Well sure I don't disagree with you at all, but the way I always hear it from Android fans, that's why they want it. I don't get it personally, I'm quite happy with a "locked down" iPhone.

troyvit1y ago

I don't know how it is on iPhones, but many Android phones come with a crap-ton of unwanted software that is uninstallable unless you have root. I'm exaggerating but it feels like buying a car with all the stations pre-programmed in the radio.

edit: s/it/the radio

robertlagrant1y ago

Depends on the phone. This is the un-walled garden.

I use OnePlus, which has very little/no bloat.

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Zak1y ago

> locking yourself out of vital apps (finance/banking)

My controversial take here is that Google's creation of a remote attestation scheme is also anticompetitive, intended to reduce the commercial viability of any non-blessed Android distributions.

Everyone could see the bad intent when Microsoft proposed the same thing about a decade earlier under the name Palladium, but Google's Safetynet didn't prompt much outcry from the tech community. I'm disappointed by that.

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