Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.
Apache Traffic Server AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Ad Blockers
The best Ad Blocker alternative to Apache Traffic Server is Privoxy, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Apache Traffic Server and five of them are Ad Blockers so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Ad Blocker alternatives to Apache Traffic Server are Polipo, Proximodo, Acrylic DNS Proxy and GlimmerBlocker.
Alternatives list
- 19 Polipo alternatives
A small and fast caching web proxy (a web cache, an HTTP proxy, a proxy server). Polipo can be used in place of ad-filtering, privacy-enhancing proxies such as Junkbuster, Privoxy or WWWOFFLE. As Polipo has much more refined HTTP support, it doesnt impose the speed tax usually...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux

Proximodo is a loopback proxy server, seemingly a fork of proxomitron though likely abandonware. Unlike Proxomitron its developer is not existentially challenged. Additionally Proximodo can use Proxomitron filters. Unfortunately it does not support SSL connections.



Acrylic is a local DNS proxy for Windows which improves the performance of your computer by caching the responses coming from your DNS servers and helps you fight unwanted ads through a custom HOSTS file.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows


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The problem with other ad-blockers for Safari is that they are implemented as awful hacks: as an InputManager and/or ApplicationEnhancer. This compromises the stability of Safari and very often create problems when Apple releases a new version of Safari.


















