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Exactly, taking away tools which enable you to enhance your digital privacy, or the ability to use such tools, is fundamentally a flawed way to enhance your privacy in the long term.
Same for security with rooting, and it's the same reason why the argument that "rooting makes your phone less secure" is a fundamentally flawed argument.
Yes! I hate that companies are trying to make people think thar rooting=unsafe. Then make it work safely. Root user is safe on Linux, then why it isn't on phone?
That's just boils down to user not giving root access to every app.
Because they don't know what could potentially be running with root access and they'd rather block everything they don't know.
Earlier this year my accountant asked me to install an app on my phone to give them access to some banking details and that app would not open the login screen without the gboard keyboard enabled, because they considered custom keyboard apps = bad. It also would not let me use password managers, so I was forced to put my banking details beyond a weaker password than any of my online accounts for random sites.
Exactly!
Ultimately rooting empowers users with control, and many company profit from users not having control, like Netflix, like Google with their ads, etc., so they love to make people think rooting is somehow unsafe lol