Finally my iPhone can use a local Socks Proxy + Firewall that uses an ssh tunnel between it and my server.

As everything is directly redirected to the tunnel, any iPhone ad-blocker/firewall does not work anymore, such as FirewallIP or Adbl0ck. So I have created a PAC* file that filters most of the iPhone ads (all ads from TapTap Revenge 3 for example and for the other apps I'm using), there's no more ads in my apps and when I'm surfing with Safari, so I'm quite happy.

Ads form Taptap blocked:

Admob blocked:

What's great with this system, is that if I don't want to use the tunnel over 3G, my basic PAC firewall is still working (because the firewall is set locally), and ads are even more filtered (because my ad-killer apps are now working)!

But... Now I want to do something better... You probably have noticed the blue "[?]" icon for SBSettings. I just want to filter from the server any ads directly from the source. I mean, deleting every blocks that contain an ad, so what I'll receive on my iPhone is a clean HTML source without any ad blocks.

This can be done with Privoxy or Polipo, using the best ad-list killer ever --> easylist (Use Easylist with a proxy like Polipo, bfilter or Privoxy?). These tools also provide some optimisations for you such as cached data.

So... Privoxy + PAC + SSH tunneling + iPhone = ad killer + network booster + security ?

We'll see that next time

* Example of PAC Firewall: http://www.securemecca.com/pac.html

PS: I'm not gonna post my personal PAC file right now, nor my scripts that automatically connect you to my server. But soon