Block Ads on Your iPhone’s Mobile Safari
4-May, 2009
For those Mac users out there who also happen to have one of those iPhone things, you may want to checkout GlimmerBlocker. This little app does not monkey with Safari or WebKit per se, but acts as an HTTP proxy for Safari and Camino on the Mac.
“Move along. There’s nothing to see here,” you might say. GlimmerBlocker has a little secret, however. You can easily enable the app as a proxy to block ads on your iPhone while on your own network. Now, why not jailbreak your phone and have ad-blocking enabled 24/7? As tempting as that sounds, I prefer not to deal with all the BS baggage that comes with busting your phone out of the proverbial Apple clink. Simply put, I want my phone to work like a phone when I want it to work like a phone. Got that? There are other alternatives, but we all know what can happen when one downloads/installs sketchy software, don’t we?
