Help will I still get OTA if I root?

[solaris9123]

I have a 2013 Moto G on Verizon.

I've been wanting to root since I purchased but have been wary of doing so because, A: it is a brand new phone, and B: I'm afraid if I DO do it, then I will not receive any possible upcoming OTA updates.
I've been patiently waiting until Verizon pushes out 5.0.2 to the Moto G but now I'm really wanting to bite the bullet and install superuser

My question is, can Verizon somehow detect if the phone has root access and deny the update?
Even if I'm still on the stock carrier ROM?
I'm sick to death of the ads and popups man, I need some control.

 

[Hadron]

If you are using the stock ROM you will be notified of the update and be able to download it. The correct question is, if you apply an OTA update to a rooted phone what will it break?

If you are lucky, it will only break root, but an OTA is a patch that's applied to the ROM, and as such assumes unmodified software as the starting point. If you have modified the software (and even rooting is a modification) then it's not in the state the patch is designed for, so there is some risk of other things going wrong.

Also on many devices installing a custom recovery (which is a normal part of rooting) will break the ability to apply an OTA update, though I don't know about the Moto G specifically.

Personally I just switch to custom ROMs after rooting, and only worry about OTAs insofar as they provide new bases for the ROM developers to work from. But it depends how active the development community is for that particular phone.

 

[funkylogik]

Yeah I think you'll still get an ota as long as you don't modify anything (remove any system apps or install custom recovery) but you will lose root. And as Hadron says it could be risky