Chromium doesn't need Chrome to exist either: it's a separate project and if Google doesn't want to support it anymore, someone can easily fork it to continue having Chromium-based browsers. That's the property of open source: anybody can inspect and fork it.
walkercricket
joined 1 year ago
Honestly, I think it's great: if it annoys people enough, they will move out from Chrome and install Firefox (or one of its forks) with good extensions for blocking ads on YouTube. It seems to be the only solution to break the monopoly of Google on browsers. So go Google, I believe in you!
Edge and Chrome are both closed source and owned by companies, so your comparison is just not valid. Using AOSP is certainly not supporting Google's monopoly: AOSP is totally open source, was bought by Google a long time ago and they don't own it due to its license (aside from the name maybe). Meaning you can still flash Android on a system without paying or using Google's services or products.
It's like saying you contribute to Google's monopoly because you use Linux and Google (also) used it in its Chromebooks.
Root can be useful for plenty of reasons: there are many apps which use root access to increase privacy, customize the system, restrict apps, manage battery charging, enforce firewall for apps and system, block trackers, backup the system, etc... I currently have 8 apps (if I don't count all the lsposed modules) using the root privileges to do all of that but I also use it for other things like automation.
The only kind of security I want to have is privacy from my own apps installed on my system, something root privilege allow me to have. For the rest, I just don't install any random program on my phone and I didn't have any problem for years.
(and no, I can't do any of that with shizuku or adb)
When I was talking about "battery charging", I meant using an app to limit the charging at a certain level: look for "acca" or simple "acc" which is the module/daemon to manage that. You have to be root to do that and there is no way around. For the rest, sure, but that's for GrapheneOS, I was talking in general, most ROM not having what GrapheneOS has and considering GrapheneOS is exclusively present on Pixel phones unfortunately...