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There are things Android forbids you to tinker with, even on a rooted device. And it’s advertisement related things.

• guerrilla 2y ago
  > And it’s advertisement related things. What do you mean?
  • Asmod4n 2y ago
    You can’t supply your own ipv6 settings, not even disabling it. That means you can’t use something like pihole with android.
    • guerrilla 2y ago
      I don't underatand. You're saying people can't use PiHole with Android? But lots of people do that... Or do you mean it can't be installed on Android itself? I googled that and it seems it can be... 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/18ov638/pi_hole_on_android/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/18ov638/pi_hole_on_...
      • Asmod4n 2y ago
        You still can’t set the IPv6 dns server manually and you can’t permanently disable IPv6. When you install pihole and set it as the dhcp server and also as the IPv6 „Ra“ server the ipv6 dns server from your router will still be used primarily. Making dns based blocking on android ineffective
• cf100clunk 2y ago
  I assume "official stock OEM Android" is what you meant, and I hope you'll give specifics of the things you mention. Alternative browsers like ungoogled-chromium-android, Cromite, Vanadium, and some others purport to have stripped most of that out from the Chromium browser, while GrapheneOS, LineageOS, /e/OS, and maybe some others purport to do that at the OS level.