Up until now, I hadn’t really thought about ads on my iPhone. A lot of sites I use have a mobile or iPhone specific version that are usually very sparse on the ads if there are even any at all. But then sometimes you run across that annoying site that has a bunch of ads loaded on along with annoying flash ones that put a big can’t play icon over a good chunk of the page.

Well, no more. I recently decided to try out Adblock for the iPhone. It is available for jailbroken phones only. It costs a hefty $8, which I think is what put me off when I first saw it available months ago. Now that I’ve used it for awhile I can say that it was worth it to me. Screens of it in action on a couple sites below.

First, standard CNN:

Now, ad-blocked CNN:

Standard Mininova:

Ad-blocked Mininova:

The results are cleaner pages with less junk that you don’t want to see. It doesn’t always block 100% everything, but the filter subscription does update. It’s done a great job so far for what I expected it to do though. Another great thing about Adblock is that it improves page load time by not downloading the extra content at all. If it was reduced in price down to between $2-$4 I think it might sell more as it seems a tad high for functionality you can get for free on desktop browsers.

Anybody used it and have any thoughts? Comment below. You can also read more about it on the developers site at http://cocoamug.com/adblock/.

Share|

No related posts.