TL;DR

  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.
  • As per the company’s technical support team, Zenfone 10 and Zenfone 9 users
  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Why do so many phone manufacturers hate letting you unlock their bootloaders? Every Google phone lets you do this, and they probably have the most secure Androids of them all.

      • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        pixels are by far the best to degoogled your phone and to have privacy/security/freedom actually

        they go above and beyond letting you unlock your bootloader

        • Sused@lemmy.sdf.org
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          1 year ago

          Oneplus? Bootloader is easily unlocked and it can be debloated easily after root

          • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            Rooting is a terrible security risk and there’s no point in doing it. You won’t see the popular roms like GrapheneOS, /e/, or CalyxOS supporting it.

            • Zuberi@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              Lol this is the technology page and you’re going to try to make the argument to not root(/jailbreak) a phone?.. Genuinely lold

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      1 year ago

      Probably because they know their OS is a duct-taped piece of garbage which could fall to pieces if you look at it wrong while unlocked.