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Is it a good idea to root my phone for degoogling?
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This!
I also use it for SwiftBackup and some custom crons for scripts I run on the phone. It's also very useful with pcapdroid when I want to analyze the traffic that apps are attempting to generate.
I use root for being able to customize my phone greatly and with extra security benefits (like akunohana shared) while also bring able to degoogle. But if degoogling is the only thing you care about then there are other options, especially if you're not fully adept to understanding the file system and/or Linux already.
1+ for PCAPdroid. Added some domain names and IP addresses to my hosts file by analyzing idle traffic. ๐
Which, ironically, in an ideal world, should be NONE except for perhaps some keepalive packets, if one's running a VPN or such... Boi, if normies knew the traffic going in and out of Google Play Services when "idling"... ๐