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.
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 Privoxy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Polipo are Squid, Proxomitron, TinyProxy and WinGate.
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24 Squid alternativesSquid 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Self-Hosted
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD
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.
13 WinGate alternativesWinGate 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.
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.
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CacheGuard Gateway is a free, open-source network security appliance for startups, growing businesses, and SMEs/SMBs that need enterprise-grade protection without the complexity or cost.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- VirtualBox
- Self-Hosted
- VMware vSphere Hypervisor
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server
- Proxmox Virtual Environment
Privaxy is the next generation tracker and advertisement blocker. It blocks ads and trackers by MITMing HTTP(s) traffic.
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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.
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.
Better Pop Up Blocker improves the default pop up blockers for Google Chrome and Apple Safari by blocking pop up windows opened by javascript, & other annoyances like alert, prompt, and confirm boxes.
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
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