I find it super interesting how they have gone back and forth on different approaches. I wonder how much user data they collect from the wild (not even sure how one would go about it).
Amazing how much analytics I block from every app.
No idea if it’s exhaustive. But I can see things like general day by day analytics and recent crash reports.
It’s a bit opaque and difficult to make sense of, but it’s still impressive they make this telemetry available to you at all.
I have most of it disabled this is what the firewall options are for OfferUp for example. https://ibb.co/SVbyybC Aside from analytics I can also block the ads from Bing in the app.
Sometimes there’s flaws/glitches in iOS or OS X and they kill battery life or rewrite databases, I was able to diagnose it, I installed top (yes CLI top) and figured it out. I have a full terminal just like my computer, it’s awesome so much Linux CLI has been ported.
What are the major benefits you yourself get from it? My major reasoning used to be emulators, but I have a hacked New 3DS which runs everything I want it to these days with better controls.
Firewalls like the grandparent comment seems quite useful
Also- recently ordered a Japanese New 3DS and am glad to hear you are enjoying it, looking forward to having a great emulation machine- maybe one day I’ll get around to installing a modchip in my switch lite too
The injectors for the Virtual Console are super great too; GB, GBA and Sega have worked flawlessly (including saving, for the GB/GBA). It can be a little finicky to get the right settings for injection (around the battery/nand emulation), but once you get the process down pat it's straightforward.
The coolest part was that the second hand one I bought still had the previous users Nintendo Account setup on it, but the homebrew/custom firmware system let me erase it without wiping the system.
They're brilliant little systems, I'm very impressed.
I've got the first-generation bootloader exploitable Switch that I've considered hacking, but I think I'll wait til it's a bit older or I've replaced it with the next generation Switch.
I stopped using a jailbroken phone mainly because it was getting more and more difficult to circumvent banking app security, and it seemed like every payment-related app wants to include some form of jailbreak detection these days.
That and the random resprings which were likely the fault of jailbroken content I installed, but often it is too time consuming to debug exactly which tweak was causing the instability