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ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfone, Updated
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this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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Rooting is a terrible security risk and there's no point in doing it. You won't see the popular roms like GrapheneOS, /e/, or CalyxOS supporting it.
Lol this is the technology page and you're going to try to make the argument to not root(/jailbreak) a phone?.. Genuinely lold
Yes...? You can have custom roms without sacrificing security. There's genuinely no reason to root anymore.
Can't tell if troll or not
Can you use English words to explain why you think this is wrong, or are you just wasting internet bandwidth
Beepboop robot didn't understand
What Asus broke here was the bootloader unlocking. Without that, there's no custom ROMs or root. Root and bootloader unlocking mean different things.
Regarding root being a terrible security risk or not, I guess it will depend on the user? I never had any issues and only see it as one more thing that isn't as safe as it could be... my bootloader is unlocked, the recovery isn't stock, I'm running a custom ROM so I have to trust the developers/building process, etc.