Squid Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Squid for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Privoxy, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Squid and 16 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Squid are Varnish, Artica Proxy, Polipo and Apache Traffic Server.

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  1. hBlock icon

    hBlock

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    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
     
  2. G

    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
     
  4. 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
     
  5. 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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