Squid Alternatives

Squid is described as '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' and is a popular Proxy Service in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Squid for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Squid alternative is Privoxy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Squid are WinGate, CacheGuard Gateway, Varnish and HandyCache.

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  1. 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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. Proximodo icon

    Proximodo

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    Proximodo is a loopback proxy server, seemingly a fork of proxomitron though likely abandonware. Unlike Proxomitron its developer is not existentially challenged. Additionally Proximodo can use Proxomitron filters. Unfortunately it does not support SSL connections.

    38 Proximodo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    nuster

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    nuster is a high performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy. It is 100% compatible with HAProxy, and takes full advantage of the ACL functionality of HAProxy to provide fine-grained caching policy based on the content of request, response...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. hBlock icon

    hBlock

     11 likes

    hBlock is a POSIX-compliant shell script, designed for Unix-like systems, that gets a list of domains that serve ads, tracking scripts and malware from multiple sources and creates a hosts file (alternative formats are also supported) that prevents your system from connecting to...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Homebrew
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  6. Privaxy icon

    Privaxy

     3 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  8. discrimiNAT icon

    discrimiNAT

     1 like

    A proxy-less solution to being unable to specify hostnames in Google Cloud Firewall Rules and AWS Security Groups. It works by monitoring and blocking traffic transparently as a high-availability NAT instance on the egress of your VPC network.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Google Cloud Platform
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    Detection of older TLS versions such as SSLv3.
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  9. SquidMan icon

    SquidMan

     1 like

    SquidMan is a MacOS X graphical installer and manager for the Squid proxy cache. It is designed to operate as a "personal" proxy server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. E

    ExaProxy

     1 like

    ExaProxy is a a high-performance non-caching proxy. It is able to filter HTTP traffic using third party scripts in your favorite programming language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  11. GlimmerBlocker icon

    GlimmerBlocker

     10 likes

    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.

    49 GlimmerBlocker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Safari
    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU
    GlimmerBlocker screenshot 1
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    gate.js

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    gate - Performance & scalable I/O forward & reverse HTTP proxy based on node.js + V8 a real alternative to Squid & NGINX

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  13. C

    CProxy

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    CProxy is a HTTP caching proxy server written in Python 3. With the aim of being able to surf the Internet completely offline, it will intercept Browser's HTTPs requests and decrypt the the traffic on-the-fly to store each successful HTTP response.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  14. TBlock icon

    TBlock

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    TBlock is a content blocker that uses the hosts file (that is present in all operating systems) to block undesired websites.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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