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This is why I still use an Android custom ROM in 2024
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this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2024
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Maybe, but the archetypal non-technical user, my mother does want to run a third-party ROM. Her phone is out of its official support period, and she knows that security updates are important and would like a way to get them. Most people, at least in wealthy countries do have a technical person in their lives they can ask things like that. She doesn't want to buy a new phone because it would be too big and lack a headphone jack, a position I share.
I had to recommend against running what I run (LineageOS, Magisk, Play Integrity Fix). Without PIF, too many apps will refuse to run on LineageOS. She doesn't need root for much else (maybe adblocking) and doesn't have the knowledge to make good decisions about whether to grant root permissions to an app that asks (Magisk doesn't have an allowlist-only mode, but it should). Finally, keeping root through an update is fussy. It's not hard, but it's an extra step that has to be done in the right order every week or two.
Unlike Firefox in 2024, a third-party Android build that's easy enough to install and isn't sabotaged by Safetynet would something many non-technical users care about: an extended useful life for their devices.