Privoxy Alternatives

Privoxy is described as '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' and is a popular Ad Blocker in the web browsers category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Privoxy for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Google Chrome, Linux and Mozilla Firefox apps. The best Privoxy alternative is uBlock Origin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Privoxy are NextDNS, AdGuard, Adblock Plus and Pi-hole.

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  1. Polipo icon
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    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...

    19 Polipo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Digital Shield is a free, lightweight Chrome extension that combines a safe tab suspender and memory saver with a tracker blocker. Built on Manifest V3, it suspends heavy background tabs to free up RAM and speed up Chrome — a modern, safe replacement for the discontinued Great...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
     
  3. Blocks all Ads (banners, popups, teasers) in Safari browser for iOS devices: iPhone, iPad, iPod

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. WebCensor icon
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    WebCensor is profanity filter for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers. In addition, you can use it as content filter, as it uses not only the predefined list of bad, curse, cuss, offensive, swear words but also the ability to add your own custom filters which people will.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Google Chrome
    • Opera
    • Firefox
     
  5. fadblock icon
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    This was posted over reddit a few months ago, Apparently Ad Blockers are not allowed on Youtube. Is this a new thing they've implemented? and judging by all the recent comments and posts all over r/youtube, this change was just rolled out on a larger scale.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  6. E2Guardian icon
     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.

    15 E2Guardian alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Trustnav icon
     3 likes

    A safer browsing experience, free of malware, distracting ads & invasive tracking.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
     
  8. Technitium DNS Server is an open source tool that can be used as a personal local DNS server for privacy & security. It includes Ad blocking feature combined with DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS support.

    29 Technitium DNS Server alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. GlimmerBlocker icon
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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
     
  10. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Internet Explorer
     
  11. Ad Blocker is a web browser extension that blocks ads and trackers from following its users when surfing the internet.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
     
  12. BFilter icon
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    BFilter is a filtering web proxy. It was originally intended for removing banner ads only, but since then its capabilities have been greatly extended. Unlike most of the similar tools, it doesn't rely on blacklists (although it does support them).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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