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lifehacker.com - 10/8/2008

Block Ads on Your Jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch [Step By Step]

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Whether you're on Wi-Fi or an EDGE/3G cellular connection, many web pages would load up a heck of a lot faster on the iPhone's Mobile Safari browser if you weren't stuck waiting for "LOWER YOUR...

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How to Block Ads on Your (Jailbroken) iPhone [Iphone Adblock]
Gizmodo — ... root, navigate to the /etc folder and move the hosts.php file there somewhere on your computer for safe-keeping (don't lose it!). Then replace it with the one you downloaded and restart your iPhone. Now you'll start seeing glorious blank spots or compressed frames wherever ads used to be. It'll nuke ads at most sites serving them through a third-party server. That wasn't so bad was it? The method will work on iPod touches too. Let us know how it goes. [James Is Bored via Lifehacker] ...

Halt annoying ads on jailbroken Apple iPhone Mobile Safari
Phones Review — ... Safari browser. You know the sort of thing, an ad like “LOWER YOUR INTEREST RATES NOW” forcing your Mobile Safari to slow. But if you own a jailbroken Apple iPhone or Apple iPod Touch there is now a handy solution to stop these pesky nuisance adverts, or at least block a good few of them from grinding your page loads to a virtual halt. So to block those adverts just pop over to the source and follow the full instructions. Source – lifehacker ...

Commercial free iPhone: block Safari ads on jailbroken devices
iSmashPhone — ... Mac users) and set to connect through an SFTP connection and type in the iPhone's IP addres as the host Go to the /etc folder and move the hosts file to a secure place on your computer Copy the altered hosts file to your iPhone, then restart your device Keep in mind that some sites (such as the New York Times) are immune to this hack, but you will be ad-free on plenty of other sites with this hack. Source: James is Bored via Lifehacker ...