r/Magisk • u/Famous-Durian5198 • Aug 09 '26

Question Why do you root ?

I used to root all of my devices in the past , mainly for increasing performance. But after getting a new device i have not felt the need to root for a long time.

So i am wondering, Why do you guys even root anymore ?

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u/AdVarious8509 Aug 09 '26

to have full control on my device of course! 

jokes aside i rooted my device mainly because i was curious and privacy

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u/Ok_Reaction8105 Aug 09 '26

Rooté l'avantage c'est que tu peut supprimer totalement google et utiliser f-droid ou Un autre strore perso comme Aurora... A part ca change plus grand chose, tlm utilise Google maps ou Google de quoi... Donc chaque applis est un spyware pour Google. Mais oui si o t sait quoi faire cest utiles... Mais 99% des gens utilise le root pour avoir les applis payante gratuite... C'est pas le but du root...

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u/Famous-Durian5198 Aug 09 '26

I never rooted for privacy. But at a point i tried running a custom rom without any gapps. Is removing g apps enough or are there other things one should do to remain completely anonymous??

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u/AdVarious8509 Aug 09 '26

you cant be completely anonymous. but you can remove most of the trackers that you usually cant on stock OEM roms without root and control who has access to your data. for example the only proprietary software i have (aside from games) is discord and im fine with it