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> Android lacks mechanisms for apps to tell they're running as root too (as the root user could disable this) so [apps] can't disable functioning on rooted devices

As the owner of the device (ie the one who should have ultimate control over it), this is precisely what I want. It would be horribly broken for an operating system to do anything else!

That we're not only still fighting the battle for personal computing but additionally having to defend against misguided ideas from people in supposedly technical communities is ridiculous.



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