While rooting Android does not make it necessarily less secure, some software makers would rather you keep your device stock. Why? Well, because when you gain elevated privileges, which is what rooting enables, you might cause some issues or do some things that run afoul of their rules. Netflix now seems to have a problem with Android devices that have been rooted and/or have an unlocked bootloader, as it just dropped support for those devices on Google Play. In a statement to Android Police, Netflix says: With our latest 5.0 release, we now fully rely on the Widevine DRM provided by Google; therefore, many…
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