It ’s always a kick in the nuts wait for a Thomas Nelson Page to load in mobile Safari when you know like half of it is for an advertizement . Luckily , there ’s a way to block most of them using this method fromJames Is blase . It requires a jailbroken iPhone and bit of fetich , but it ’s not overly complicated . Once you ’ve acquire a jailbroken iPhone , you need to instal OpenSSH from Cydia . And that ’s where the work starts . After your phone restarts , head to preferences > Wi - Fi and hit the arrow next to your home Wi - Fi server . Write down the IP address you see . Then pop back to universal setting and set auto - lock to never . On your computer , downloadthis replenishment hosts.php data file . Then , using an FTP client likeFileZillaorCyberduckwith SFTP ( secure SSH connection over FTP ) , spread an SFTP connexion with your iPhone ’s IP address as the boniface . U / P is root and alpine . The connexion will take a snatch , and might give way a few metre , but say yes to any prompts and keep trying . At your iPhone ’s root , pilot to the /etc leaflet and move the hosts.php file there somewhere on your computer for good - retention ( do n’t lose it ! ) . Then supercede it with the one you download and reset your iPhone . Now you ’ll start insure glorious blank situation or contract inning wherever ads used to be . It ’ll atomize ad at most sites serving them through a third - party server . That was n’t so bad was it ? One Good Book of caution : Changing the hosts file cabinet can play hell with some apps , so watch out there . The method will work on iPod touches too . Let us know how it go . [ James Is BoredviaLifehacker ]
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