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Block ads in Safari on your jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch

Categories: General, iPhone
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 1:11 PM

Annoyed by ads on your iPhone/iPod Touch? Well I am and I’m guessing many of our readers also hate to browse through advertising to reach the actual content. For desktop computers there are a number of solutions to remove ads — not that we suggest using them, after all we make our living from advertising. However, when you’re on a limited data plan or in the hurry, you don’t want to spend your time reading ads on a mobile device. Rather, you’re searching for information and ads are quite sufficient there. That’s why someone figured out how to remove advertising from displaying in iPhone/iPod Touch’s Safari.

LifeHacker has a step-by-step tutorial on how to do this on your iPhone and iPod Touch. As expected, a jailbroken device is required, but with all those simple jailbreaking tools, that shouldn’t be a problem nowadays.

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.

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Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.