A custom ROM allows you to extend the life of your Android phone, but does it come with risks in 2024 and why isn't it more popular?

I am surprised that Google spends so much time tackling custom ROMs via it’s Play Integrity API. If only they paid that much attention to say, curating the Play Store more, it had be much better for everyone

  • aquinteros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    245·
    19 days ago

    I used custom roms for many years, but I now use my phone to pay almost everything, and I need my banking apps. magisk hide is unreliable do I won’t be rooting my phone again I think

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      82·
      19 days ago

      Same. Those features are more important than anything I get by rooting.

      Honestly I don’t even need root for anything. Adblock runs through a fake VPN app. My Pixel used to have a green screen tint, but Google fixed that at the OS level, so I don’t need to have an app for that any more.

    • DrDystopia@lemy.lolEnglish
      105·
      19 days ago

      I think people that take that approach to life are partly ruining it for us all. You’re selling your privacy for convinience and in the process legitimising the removal of (what I consider) more ethical and reasonable solutions.

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        43·
        17 days ago

        No, phone payments can be much more private than a card payment.

        Edit: who tf is downvoting this objectively true statement?

        • DrDystopia@lemy.lolEnglish
          3·
          18 days ago

          Perhaps, but I advocate against using both card and phone payment. Cash is the only truly private pay method, barring facial scanning cameras at the counter. Each to their own.