Waiting for a page to load knowing that it is slow because the page is probably ful of ads is annoying. Good thing that there is a way to block those ads using a method from James is Bored.
This method requires a jailbroken iPhone, so for those of you who have not jailbroken your iPhones and wanted to remove those annoying ads then this might be the time to jailbreak them.
Once you’ve got a jailbroken iPhone, you need to install OpenSSH from Cydia. And that’s where the work starts.
After your phone restarts, head to Settings>Wi-Fi and hit the arrow next to your home Wi-Fi server. Write down the IP address you see. Then pop back to general settings and set auto-lock to never. On your computer, download this replacement hosts.php file.
Then, using an FTP client like FileZilla or Cyberduck with SFTP (secure SSH connection over FTP), open an SFTP connection with your iPhone’s IP address as the host. U/P is root and alpine. The connection will take a bit, and might fail a few times, but say yes to any prompts and keep trying.
At your iPhone’s 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.
[via Gizmodo]
Good thing is that this method also works for the iPod Touch. So now you can say goodbye to those ads and those sites will load much faster than before.
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