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.- Free • Open Source
24 Squid alternatives- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Self-Hosted
- Solaris
- FreeBSD
- OpenSolaris
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD
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.
Squid Features
- 56 Privoxy alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Ad Blocker
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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.
- 24 Proxomitron alternatives
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
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.
Proxomitron Features
DiscontinuedLast version, 4.5, released on June 2003, is still downloadable from the official website
Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems. It is free software, and supports transparent and reverse proxying.
TinyProxy Features
- 19 Apache Traffic Server alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- FreeBSD
Formerly a commercial product, Yahoo! donated it to the Apache Foundation, and it is now an Apache TLP.
Apache Traffic Server Features
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.
- 54 GlimmerBlocker alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Ad Blocker
- Mac
- Safari
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.
GlimmerBlocker Features
DiscontinuedThe project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 1.6.6, released in September 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website.
- 54 Quero AdBlock IE alternatives
- Free • Proprietary
- Ad Blocker
- Windows
- Internet Explorer
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.
Quero AdBlock IE Features
Privaxy is the next generation tracker and advertisement blocker. It blocks ads and trackers by MITMing HTTP(s) traffic.
Privaxy Features
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.
Better Pop Up Blocker Features
- Paid • Proprietary
- Firewall
- Anti-Malware App
140 CacheGuard-OS alternatives- Windows
- VirtualBox
- VMware vSphere Hypervisor
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server
- Proxmox Virtual Environment
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...
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.
WinGate Features