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Is it a good idea to root my phone for degoogling? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by Retroman1203@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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Rooting seems to have some benefits like bypassing API integrity, so I want to know if rooting my phone is a good idea? And is it safe? (By that I mean will I break my device?) I don't use Google Play Services nor any banking apps (I use the website) and there's no supported custom ROM for my phone (Xiaomi redmi note 12 S) so I think it might be a solution

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[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

1+ for PCAPdroid. Added some domain names and IP addresses to my hosts file by analyzing idle traffic. 😁

Which, ironically, in an ideal world, should be NONE except for perhaps some keepalive packets, if one's running a VPN or such... Boi, if normies knew the traffic going in and out of Google Play Services when "idling"... 😑