Checkm8 – Bootrom exploit for many iOS devices

Re:Checkm8 – Bootrom exploit for many iOS devices by Wowfunhappy on Friday September 27, 2019 @11:49AM (#21093243)

If Google tried to charge for background playback on desktop, the extensions would arrive within days. iOS allows Google to get away with it, but that's precisely the problem with iOS's model.

Besides, I don't want to install a separate app. It's a website, and I should be able to use my web browser.

Edit: Also, this patch doesn't just work on Youtube, it's for any video in Safari.

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Re:Checkm8 – Bootrom exploit for many iOS devices by skonteam on Friday September 27, 2019 @12:00PM (#21093362)

I use invidio.us to listen to YouTube videos in the background and it works great.

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Re:Checkm8 – Bootrom exploit for many iOS devices by ben-schaaf on Friday September 27, 2019 @12:00PM (#21093370)

For Android we've already got this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-backgro...

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Re:Checkm8 – Bootrom exploit for many iOS devices by josteink on Friday September 27, 2019 @12:00PM (#21093372)

> If Google tried to charge for background playback on desktop

To be fair premium includes lots of things, including unlimited music streaming ala Spotify, ad free YouTube etc.

You’re not paying only for the background playback. Literally no one would be willing to pay for that. It’s just a minor perk, that’s all.

A perk you said you’d be willing to risk JBing your (expensive) phone over. Most people would probably be more willing to just pay the fee for what is a fairly decent music streaming service.

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Re:Checkm8 – Bootrom exploit for many iOS devices by apostacy on Friday September 27, 2019 @08:09PM (#21097407)

You COULD play YouTube videos in the background by default in Safari up until about summer 2016. Then, they sneakily added a hook that kills it if it loses focus. But sometimes there's a race condition or something and it doesn't take, so videos will still play audio in the background sometimes, and you could fool it for awhile by requesting desktop version of the YouTube page.

Point is, this was there by default, and they intentionally sabotaged it to force you to use their paid service. This is shitty malware-like behavior and I do not want to encourage them. I would not give them a single cent and I happily spent time to defeat it, because fuck them.

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Re:Checkm8 – Bootrom exploit for many iOS devices by josteink on Saturday September 28, 2019 @07:44AM (#21099818)

In your outrage, you are completely missing the point.

I don’t care about anything you’re saying here about how things are or were. Really. Not one bit.

I was merely saying that for that -one- particular reason for jailbreaking, a much simpler alternative exist (from a layman perspective).

That’s really just factual information, contributing to the discussion if you like, and downvoting me because you have grudge with Google and Apple is utterly misguided.

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Re:Checkm8 – Bootrom exploit for many iOS devices by Bootvis on Friday September 27, 2019 @01:24PM (#21094165)

I just don’t like being extorted.

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Re:Checkm8 – Bootrom exploit for many iOS devices by koolba on Friday September 27, 2019 @02:18PM (#21094703)

Neither do I but it's not even the extortion part that prevents me for signing up for a service like that.

It's knowing that they will link my viewing habits to my Google account and never delete them.

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