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Two Major Cydia Repositories Shut Down as Jailbreaking Fades in Popularity

sinsin07 said:
How do you exploit a passenger using Waze marking the location of police car or police activity on the side of the road?
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Well, my town leaves unused police cars parked in conspicuous locations to slow down traffic. Add a few not very careful Waze users and you have a lot more slowed down traffic.
[doublepost=1511686802][/doublepost]I mostly miss Winterboard, but it is more philosophical than practical - replacing every app’s icon gets to be too much work very quickly.

My old home screen:

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ctyrider said:
Thanks god for this, as based on my JB days memories - some of those tweaks were godawful.
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Based on the elementary nature of that discussion, we may easily conclude that JB adds personal freedom to apply - which is more essential in the days of a Notchy Caliphate than ever.
 
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NetMage said:
Well, my town leaves unused police cars parked in conspicuous locations to slow down traffic. Add a few not very careful Waze users and you have a lot more slowed down traffic.
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Interesting.
Doesn't negate the fact that there will be times that real police will actually be on the side of the road for traffic infractions, speed traps, help for disabled cars etc..

A dummy police unit on the side of the road is still a possible cause for slow downs and rubbernecking regardless of Waze.
In this case Waze would still be useful.

That "not very careful Waze users" part is pure speculation and not defensible therefore it can be ignored.
 
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ThunderMasterMind said:
Let’s see, the lock screen in iOS 11 is broken half of the time. The control center is still quirky, the gigantic headers make no sense and need to disappear, the music app is trash, folders are glitchy, the widget center is laggy... shall I continue?
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Those may be enough to justify a jailbreak for you, but its clear that those things don't bother most people to the same degree. If they did then the jailbreak community would still command the popularity it had. When I jailbroke my devices it was because I was adding major functionality that iOS lacked. Personally, I havent even noticed most of what you've listed and I dont use Apple music anyway. I agree that the header font looks dumb but i've already gotten over it and its not worth my time to jailbreak just to shrink it.
 
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My mother is still on a jailbroken iOS9 so I can help her out remotely via VNC. Wish Apple would finally add remote device management support like on MacOS.
 
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ThunderMasterMind said:
Let’s see, the lock screen in iOS 11 is broken half of the time. The control center is still quirky, the gigantic headers make no sense and need to disappear, the music app is trash, folders are glitchy, the widget center is laggy... shall I continue?
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To be fair I only use 3 iOS devices w 11 on it every day. However I don’t think I have experienced any of those things since the GM release. There were issues when I was using beta builds but not now.

When you say the lock screen is broken half the time what do you mean?
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ppdix said:
My jailbroken iPhone 3 years ago could do more than my new iPhone X with iOS11...
I hate that Apple doesn't let you change or customize anything.
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Your definition of more has to be very unusual.
 
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mono1980 said:
It's also a security nightmare. No thanks.
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I see lots of parroting of the security issues brought by Jailbreaking but no actual facts - how does Jailbreaking decrease your phone’s security, exactly?
[doublepost=1511794926][/doublepost]That “In this case Waze would still be useful” part is pure speculation and not defensible therefore it can be ignored.
 
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mono1980 said:
It's also a security nightmare. No thanks.
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You clearly haven't ran a JB very long at all. I have five devices, two on 6, one on 8 and two on 9. All of them are on jailbreaks that I use off and on all the time, and I have no issues with security whatsoever. iOS is extremely robust and very secure no matter what version you are on. People seriously worry about it for no good reason, and they never give a legitimate reason as to why it's a major security issue. Think about how many times you actually hear about a security breach in iOS. It's not often and quite rare actually, much like OS X. Nothing is hack free per say, but a jailbreak doesn't impact security on your device much at all unless you play dumb with it. If you stick to trusted repos and install safe tweaks, you should be fine. I've used jailbroken devices since 2011, and I haven't had an issue with them ever.
 
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I would JB my phones and iPads to change the way some apps worked.

On Facebook, I would use NoMoreStories to hide the stupid FB stories. On my iPad Mini 2 and 6+ running iOS 9, I used Underface to be able to use FaceBook while showing offline. I used XCon to keep my banks app from detecting my devices were jailbroken so I could continue using them. I used Instagram ++ to be able to download any picture or video that was posted by anyone. On the App Store, I used NoPromosAppstore to get rid of Apples advertising. On Twitter, I used NoPromosTwitter to get rid of the promoted Tweets and in case you missed it garbage. I also used 3GUnrestrictor to get past Apples apps over a certain MB download limit. Apple is the only phone maker with that download limit. It doesn't exist on Android. I also used location faker to make apps think that I was in another country anywhere in the world. I did this often on FB and Instagram and even Twitter.

It was never about changing the look of my phone but in allowing my phone and it's apps go beyond what Apple and app developers intended with their apps/OS. It's been a great time being able to do that all these years.

I also used AppAdmin to be able to go download older versions of apps, even app versions that support features that Apple no longer allows such as Adguards ability to block ads in apps using VPNs. AppAdmin also can hide app updates from any of these apps that I have downgraded so that I never am prompted to update them again.

Last week, I was thinking of updating my 6S to iOS 11 and giving up my JB. No longer going to do that. I still have a 6+ also jailbroken. I'm going to see if I can get hold of a few S2 watches that may still be on OS 3 that I may still be able to use with my 6S. I made the mistake of updating all three of my watches to the latest and I regret that.
 
I jailbroke in the past because Apple didn't have video recording for the old phones. They lacked a lot of features that were possible with other phones and could work on the iPhone. It's like they were holding back some things to make the new phone look better. Now they have all the essentials.
 
brendu said:
Eh, Apple added most of the most popular Jailbreaking tweaks over the years. There is far less reason to do it today compared to 5 years ago.
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Exactly. Flashlight, silent mode, folders, etc, are in iOS, and tethering is included in all carrier plans now. I see no reason to Jailbreak anymore.
 
I've also realized what folks have been doing with jail breaking, I've been doing with actually updating iOS! I remember using ios3 for the first time on my iPod Touch 3, only to be surprised there wasn't any way to create folders! :confused: ios4 fixed that! Another update... the one that came with Game Center. Otherwise, much like with Windows and Android, I saw no reason to update to the next version of iOS ASAP, or at all. It didn't help that more features than not were only available for iPhone, let alone the latest model Iph.
 
The need to jb has gone way down in the last decade, that is for sure.

I jailbroke my original iPhone in July, 2007, a couple weeks after the iPhone came out. That was an amazing time. Jailbreaking totally enhanced an already amazing device, and at the same time showed where things were going. At that time there was no App Store for the iPhone--there were no installable third party apps (at least not officially). But jb'ing allowed app installation and it was clear the OS, known as iPhone OS at that time, would eventually allow that. And it did with the App Store in 2008.

But there were still plenty of reasons to jb. BiteSMS was so far ahead of the text app there was no contest. MyWi was the only way to really tether. Plenty of other really good apps too. And loads of customization (granted I was never really into jb'ing for the visual customization aspect).

Over the subsequent years iOS gained more and more features, that beforehand needed jb. And Apple themselves hired jb devs to work on iOS. The guy behind Mobile Notifier, Peter HaJas, is one I remember. There were others.

By the time the iPhone 6 was released I figured jb'ing was about dead. I skipped the 6 for a Note 4 and embarrassingly predicted my Note 4 (AT&T) would be rooted (Android's version of jailbreak) well before the iPhone 6, if the 6 ever was. Boy was I wrong: The iPhone 6 was in fact jailbroken rather quickly. Meanwhile my AT&T Note 4 never had a real root (only one that lasted till the next restart).

A year later I did jb my iPhone 6S+ but by then I didn't see any real need and just did it because I could. I then started to run into apps that wouldn't even run if jailbroken and I said forget it (I am talking to you, Super Mario Run :)). The end of jb'ing for me.

But thanks for the memories!



Mike
 
You want unlimited customisation? Use Android. It’s evolved into a rather fantastic OS. iOS is special because of every way it’s NOT Android. Sometimes being in a trusty, protective bubble can be comforting. If you want more freedom, why use Apple products. Personally most of the time I just want things to work. I get that with iOS. Besides, why PAY for customisation on a jailbroken iPhone when you can achieve more for FREE on Android.
 
ActionableMango said:
This thread is filled with posts from people who have stopped doing JB due to lost interest. I certainly lost interest.
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Sure, one can lose interest especially if it's IMPOSSIBLE to JB. Just out of curiosity if you wanted to JB your device fully untethered right now, can you? The answer is probably no. I certainly can't on mine.
 
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