DansGuardian Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to DansGuardian for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Plucky. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Plucky or Privoxy. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to DansGuardian and seven of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to DansGuardian are Privaxy, E2Guardian, ufdbGuard and Diladele Web Safety.

More about DansGuardian
Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
DansGuardian alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  2. Privoxy icon

    Privoxy

     60 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. NxFilter icon

    NxFilter

     11 likes

    NxFilter is a freeware web filtering software controlling user activity on Internet. You can monitor Internet usage in your network and block user request for websites with NxFilter. It offers many features like Active Directory integration, User or Group based policy...

    58 NxFilter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    NxFilter screenshot 1
     
  5. Privaxy icon

    Privaxy

     3 likes

    Privaxy is the next generation tracker and advertisement blocker. It blocks ads and trackers by MITMing HTTP(s) traffic.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    Privaxy screenshot 1
     
  6. E2Guardian icon

    E2Guardian

     4 likes

    e2guardian is an Open Source web content filter, It filters the actual content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, request header and URL filtering, etc. It does not purely filter based on a banned list of sites.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. ufdbGuard icon

    ufdbGuard

     Like

    ufdbGuard is a URL filter to block unwanted web content on the internet. ufdbGuard can also enforce Google SafeSearch, detect UltraSurf, Tor, Skype and other chat applications, proxy tunnels and enforce safer HTTPS traffic. ufdbGuard supports the YouTube edufilter.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    ufdbGuard screenshot 1
     
  9. Diladele Web Safety icon

    Diladele Web Safety

     Like

    Web Safety for Squid Proxy (aka qlproxy) is an ICAP web filtering server that integrates with Squid proxy installed in your network, which provides rich web and content filtering platform to sanitize Internet traffic.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Diladele Web Safety screenshot 1
     
7 of 7 DansGuardian alternatives