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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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Top 3 examples for the stuff you can do that's so worthwhile?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

With root?

  1. Having a superior backup and restore method, Swiftbackup rooted is way better than Google's solution.

  2. Hassle free ad-less YouTube (and YT music) the root apps (Magisk or KSU) come with a way to auto update, so, from the user side I just hit update and I am good to go, no need to waste time patching the apks myself.

  3. I can replace the Google news from the side/left menu with whatever app I like, in my case, the Feeder app.

I can go on, but you just asked for 3.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I love those thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just disable Google app completely. Then Google news on the left just goes away

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Fair, but I still want something on the left.