[flutas]

FWIW: Rooting seems fairly easy at this point in time, at least for pixel devices.

Flash with magisk, install Universal Safetynet Fix (https://github.com/Displax/safetynet-fix/) and you're passing safetynet / play integrity API.

I haven't come across a single app that doesn't work due to root currently, but I limit my installed apps.

[kevincox]

You pass basic safety net. You do this by claiming that your device is an older device that doesn't support hardware attestation. I can only assume that in some small number of years hardware attestation is going to be required and will require software exploits to work around.

[Groxx]

Last time I tried to use magisk on my pixel it was a complete fustercluck (about a year ago). I ended up having to patch together multiple fixes in multiple forum threads, and manually pick apart and patch the firmware package, because nothing worked at all for months on end, on a completely stock device.

I have kinda lost faith in it. And it doesn't help that it tries to do everything internally, so you can't e.g. download your pre-patch blobs or upload them after it loses track of them, because it does everything exclusively in complicatedly-magically-named internal folders. There is some seriously bonkers decision-making going on in it.

[e4e5]

Thank you, I rooted my phone a few days ago and have been putting off fixing safety net.

But that worked and was absolutely painless.

[rocho]

Last time I tried this I wasted many hours but couldn't make Google Wallet work. SafetyNet was passing but Wallet was still disallowing any card operations.

[jcul]

I think you need to hide root for Google wallet and some other Google services app(s).

And wipe their storage / cache too so they start from a clean slate.