Polipo AlternativesProxy Services & Ad Blockers like Polipo

Polipo is described as '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' and is a Ad Blocker in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Polipo for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best Polipo alternative is Squid, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Polipo are Privoxy, Proxomitron, TinyProxy and WinGate.

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  1. Squid icon

    Squid

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    Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.

    24 Squid alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
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    • Squid is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Polipo.

    • Squid is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Polipo.

    • Squid is Free and Open SourcePolipo is also Free and Open Source
    • Squid is Privacy focusedPolipo is not according to our users
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    Privoxy

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    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. Proxomitron icon

    Proxomitron

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    For those who have not yet been introduced, meet the Proxomitron: a free, highly flexible, user-configurable, small but very powerful, local HTTP web-filtering proxy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. TinyProxy icon

    TinyProxy

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    Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems. It is free software, and supports transparent and reverse proxying.

    28 TinyProxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. WinGate icon

    WinGate

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    WinGate Proxy Server is a highly capable integrated Proxy server, firewall and email server designed for access control, security and communications needs. What you do get is all the features of Standard license for 3 concurrent users.

    13 WinGate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Policy Editor
     
  7. Artica Proxy icon

    Artica Proxy

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    ARTICA Proxy is an enterprise grade security appliance : web filtering (w/o SSL decryption), DNS Filtering, bandwith optimisation, easy ACL management, users authentication on LDAP or Active Directory (NTLM/Kerberos), deployment tools (such as proxy.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  9. Privaxy icon

    Privaxy

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  10. GlimmerBlocker icon

    GlimmerBlocker

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Safari
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  11. Apache Traffic Server icon

    Apache Traffic Server

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    Formerly a commercial product, Yahoo! donated it to the Apache Foundation, and it is now an Apache TLP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
     
  12. Quero AdBlock IE icon

    Quero AdBlock IE

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    Quero AdBlock IE XML is an InPrivate Filtering XML-based Ad Blocker for Internet Explorer 8 and Quero AdBlock IE TPL is an ad blocking Tracking Protection List (TPL) for Internet Explorer 9.

    48 Quero AdBlock IE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Internet Explorer
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    Zscaler

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    Zscaler consolidates your stacks of gateway security appliances into integrated, cloud-based security services. Since it’s security as a service, there’s no physical or virtual hardware to deploy or manage, so getting started is simple.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • Zscaler is the most popular iPhone, iPad & SaaS alternative to Polipo.

    • Zscaler is the most popular commercial alternative to Polipo.

    • Zscaler is Paid and ProprietaryPolipo is Free and Open Source
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    CacheGuard-OS

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    All CacheGuard products and services are focused on delivering secured and optimized Web contents to our clients. To achieve that goal we made CacheGuard OS which is our core product. Once installed on a virtual or hardware machine, CacheGuard OS turns it into a powerful Web...

    135 CacheGuard-OS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • VirtualBox
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Proxmox Virtual Environment
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