Polipo Alternatives

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 web browsers 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 Apache Traffic Server.

Polipo alternatives are mainly Ad Blockers but may also be Firewalls or Anti-Malware Apps. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Polipo.

Polipo

Free • Open Source
Ad Blocker

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Squid
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
BSD
Self-Hosted
Solaris
FreeBSD
OpenSolaris
NetBSD
OpenBSD
24 Squid alternatives
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.
- - Squid is the most popular Windows, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Polipo.
- - Squid is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Polipo.
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HTTP Proxy
Privoxy
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Free • Open Source
Ad Blocker
Mac
Windows
Linux
56 Privoxy alternatives
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.
- - Privoxy is the most popular Mac alternative to Polipo.
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Proxomitron
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
24 Proxomitron alternatives
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.
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Proxomitron Features
1. Support for scriptingProxomitron supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
Discontinued
Last version, 4.5, released on June 2003, is still downloadable from the official website
TinyProxy
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Free • Open Source
Linux
30 TinyProxy alternatives
Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems. It is free software, and supports transparent and reverse proxying.
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Cascade proxy
Apache Traffic Server
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Linux
Self-Hosted
FreeBSD
19 Apache Traffic Server alternatives
Formerly a commercial product, Yahoo! donated it to the Apache Foundation, and it is now an Apache TLP.
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Load balancing
HTTPS Support
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Zscaler
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Linux
iPhone
iPad
Software as a Service (SaaS)
8 Zscaler alternatives
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.
- - Zscaler is the most popular iPhone, iPad & SaaS alternative to Polipo.
- - Zscaler is the most popular commercial alternative to Polipo.
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GlimmerBlocker
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Free • Open Source
Ad Blocker
Mac
Safari
54 GlimmerBlocker alternatives
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.
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Safari extension
System Proxy
Discontinued
The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 1.6.6, released in September 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Quero AdBlock IE
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Free • Proprietary
Ad Blocker
Windows
Internet Explorer
54 Quero AdBlock IE alternatives
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.
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Quero AdBlock IE Features
1. Ad-freeQuero AdBlock IE doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
Internet Explorer extension
Privaxy
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Free • Open Source
Ad Blocker
Mac
Windows
Linux
Self-Hosted
35 Privaxy alternatives
Privaxy is the next generation tracker and advertisement blocker. It blocks ads and trackers by MITMing HTTP(s) traffic.
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HTTP Proxy
Better Pop Up Blocker
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Free • Proprietary
Ad Blocker
Mac
Windows
Linux
Google Chrome
63 Better Pop Up Blocker alternatives
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.
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Better Pop Up Blocker Features
Disable JavaScript
Incognito mode
CacheGuard-OS
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Paid • Proprietary
Firewall
Anti-Malware App
Windows
VirtualBox
VMware vSphere Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Proxmox Virtual Environment
140 CacheGuard-OS alternatives
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...
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WinGate
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Freemium • Proprietary
Windows
13 WinGate alternatives
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.
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Access Control
HTTP Proxy