Rooting involves an unlocked bootloader, not all phones can be, and then booting a custom recovery then it installs a root, if you can get past the bootloader then the recovery + root is likely to work.
The problem with these is you end up with a bit of a risk of ābrickingā, and you (now) probably lose phone being able to do certain financial transactions (e.g. Google Pay). So itās more related how important is your phone, do you have other devices.
I think rooting of a (primary) phone is probably not a good idea as you break financial applications, but rooting of (secondary, e.g) a tablet - a bigger screen for media - is probably not going to have a downside, and having Linux on laptops has no downside I know of other than a few app support.
So for people:
- only have a phone - just donāt root it, and make your decision on your best phone
- phone + tablet - root the tablet, you can then do some clever ad-block type on the tablet
- phone + laptop - make the laptop a Chromebook or just put Linux on it, the choice is more one of battery life.
I have phone + tablet + laptop. My Huawei is the tablet. So I am not remotely worried what USA does, if they go bad I will just go to my alternatives and make, probably, a better tablet as I cut the bloatware and custom skin.
My phone, though, is OnePlus, if it gets into an escalation war, itās what I use to drive Google Pay. But ā¦ guess what! Then I just carry a bit of plastic instead! No big loss. The loss would be Googleās more than mine. Google loses. A USA company.
So you see the issue, USA hurts itself if it hurts others.