lifehacker.com - 10/8/2008
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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]
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Block ads in Safari on your jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... Anyway, here’s a link to the page on LifeHacker’s website from where you can find out how to make turn ads into a blank spaces and enjoy the pure content. ...
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
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