Checkm8 – Bootrom exploit for many iOS devices

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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