• Refurbished Refurbisher
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        7 months ago

        I’m pretty sure the term jailbreak comes from the term “jail” being used on FreeBSD, which iOS is based on, which is an application sandboxing tool, therefore, a “jailbreak” is a method to escape that sandbox and gain elevated permissions to the system.

        iOS being a jail is a pretty apt analogy, regardless, though.

    • @fidodo
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      67 months ago

      I guess, but it’s like a 2 foot high fence

      • @DrCake
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        277 months ago

        On iOS the browser isn’t really Firefox. It’s just a re-skinned Safari due to apples rules. I think now they are allowed to ship their own engines