[Google Pixel 6 Pro] rexxrivers:
What I hate is the fact that this person is a senior member of this forum, and their answer is to "stop trying to do things in the user root directory and give me more information what you're trying to do", what are you an agent for Google?

That is the most ridiculous response I've ever heard, why exactly do you need to know what he's doing? To grant him permission to access a part of his own personal device? The simple answer could have been just hey man that's how the operating system works right now and that's how it is, there is no fix, it's not meant to be fixed or something like that, or it was designed intentionally that way.

That's the answer to this, not telling him to stop doing things in the root directory and this is a perfect example of why Android has gotten to this point, senior members answering this question like that that just goes to show you where the development team at Google has headed in their direction on why this folder is no longer accessible to any user that doesn't have root access.

Now part of the phone is restricted where we can't see it unless we root the device and as most people know, most new popular devices, there's no way to root them. It's just another method of Google keeping proprietary information proprietary, they say it's for security purposes, that is a joke, it is not for security purposes, no it isn't. Android Jesus himself could come down and tell me it is for security purposes and I would tell Android Jesus he was wrong.

I would venture to guess that Google has two reasons for keeping this from users that aren't rooted, One is proprietary they have proprietary information in there that they don't want people reverse engineering, and I can maybe understand that from a business perspective. The other is for Google diagnostics, analytics some sort of tracking mechanism, that they're hiding from most users, I guarantee you the base of this data collection camp that is now housed on every Android device, it is likely located someplace in this inaccessible folder, likely phones home 20 times a day, and also it's just another way that makes it next to impossible to completely de-google the phone.

Such a terrible answer. The fact that this is the answer is the tripe that Google search AI now feeds you, is a joke man, this is not what Android is supposed to be about, if somebody wants to destroy their operating system and delete a whole bunch of system files, who cares? That's on them, there could be a disclaimer or a warning that pops up when you access that folder and that's it.

People should be able to access whatever part of their device they want to, ironically windows has done the same thing in recent years they've created an isolated part of the operating system that, like this, typical users cannot access, and it has nothing to do with security or any other trash that the PR department at Microsoft feeds you. It has to do proprietary code and with diagnostics analytics tracking building an advertising profile, whatever you want to call it, and I guarantee you that's one of the main reasons that Google has restricted access to the root directory here. There's only one reason people make extreme changes, money and making more of it. They can sit there and hide this behind security purposes all they want no it isn't has nothing to do with security purposes Google could care less if users are destroying their operating systems on their phones they could care less about that they don't give a flying fajita about any of that. Has to do with one thing and that's money and that's making more of it by keeping this directory inaccessible to most users because then the users can't dismantle the tracking diagnostics or advertising profile that the thing is building on us, and sending to Google servers like every however often per day. There's no other reason Google would do that except for money for having more money in their pockets and they found that even the hardcore Android users who are known to tinker and want to be able to access this folder they took that into consideration when restricting access here and they said we don't care about those users anymore because our user base is full enough to the degree that they're going to use the phone anyway or go get a new operating system That's exactly where this is at Google said to a bunch of users yeah you don't like it piss off That's exactly what they said. That's how you know it's about money 100%.