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I was speaking for myself, I have no idea why people do it. Didn't say there aren't legitimate reasons, I just don't know any of them
I have installed custom ROM (PixelExperience) on my Moto G5s Plus. This way I extended its life by 2 years. The stock ROM only went up to Android 8.1 and was very slow and buggy, unlike with Android 7. This way I got Android 11 which was newest at the time. It was also much faster than the flawed 8.1 update.
Additionally, PixelExperience allowed some nice things. It looks like Google Pixel phone, even to Google, so I got free unlimited photo/video backups. This may be against ToS, but it's not like I said I have a Pixel 5, they decided that I do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Another really great thing is routing Wi-Fi hotspot over VPN. I definitely don't want someone using my internet connection raw.
Next, root. I have only done that with Samsung Galaxy Ace from 2011. No locked bootloader BS, just flash, Tada! Rooted.
This allowed me to do full backups, including apps on that device.
But there's countless other uses, most of which I forgot. Some that I can think of that would be useful to me are:
What services does it have that are listening on external interfaces?
It's not necessarily about listening.
Many/most apps try to connect to Facebook, for example. Part of the ghost profile issue.
Or a handful of other data gathering services.
Blocking those are useful for both privacy reasons and battery life.
Those apps like to run in the background at al times, registering for every single receiver the phone has (apps like Solitaire, for example). If I didn't block receivers many apps would run all the time, even apps I use once a month.
It's MY phone... End
That's the point. I don't know.
Privacy? I am astonished that you're seriously asking this.
Is this the point about unlocking the bootloader being risky, or did you just pour the Google/Samsung advertisement ethos down your throat?
I guess that's a fair reason. I hadn't really considered that because I don't personally care too much
I'm interested; are you saying you don't care about privacy from your android device?
I don't care to enhance it any further from the default experience, especially with the downsides
Downsides?
Can be quite a bit buggier than stock, can be difficult or impossible to use some apps. You can lose some stock features sometimes. You can spend a lot of time debugging issues.
You're talking about other people, not yourself.
The internet is chock full of people rooting. If you don't know why other people rot it's from willful ignorance.