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, hBlock, TinyProxy and Polipo.

Squid 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 Squid.

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Privoxy
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Free • Open Source
Ad Blocker
Mac
Windows
Linux
55 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 Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Squid.
- - Privoxy is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Squid.
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Guest
It accomplishes the same thing except for one feature: the caching aspect.
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Guest
There is no similarity between the two applications. Squid is a caching proxy. Privoxy is not.
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Guest
Squid is a caching proxy. Privoxy is a non-caching software. There is no overlap in the use-cases for those types of software.
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Privoxy doesn't cache web content.
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No caching function. Primary usage of squid.
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Varnish
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Free • Open Source
Linux
18 Varnish alternatives
Varnish Cache is an open source, state of the art HTTP application accelerator.
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Varnish Features
Load balancing
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Some users think Varnish is a great Squid alternative, some don't.
Guest
It is an alternative for the server-side use of squid. It is not suitable for the client-side functionality
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hBlock
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Free • Open Source
Ad Blocker
Mac
Linux
BSD
Homebrew
32 hBlock alternatives
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...
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hBlock Features
1. Block TrackershBlock has a feature to block trackers from tracking you.
2. Ad-freehBlock doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
3. LightweighthBlock consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
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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
Opinions about TinyProxy as a Alternative to Squid
Almost everyone thinks TinyProxy is a great Squid alternative.
Polipo
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Free • Open Source
Ad Blocker
Windows
Linux
19 Polipo alternatives
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...
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Discontinued
From the official website, "Polipo is obsolete. When it was first written, Polipo was probably the best HTTP proxy available. Since then, the web protocols have changed, and Polipo hasn't kept up — it has no support for HTTP/2.0 or the WebSocket protocol. Polipo will no longer be maintained."
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.
- - Apache Traffic Server is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Squid.
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Apache Traffic Server Features
Load balancing
HTTPS Support
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ATS has an event driven architecture where as Squid runs single-threaded. ATS scales much better than Squid.
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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 Squid.
- - Zscaler is the most popular commercial alternative to Squid.
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Privaxy
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Free • Open Source
Ad Blocker
Mac
Windows
Linux
Self-Hosted
34 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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Privaxy Features
HTTP Proxy
3proxy
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
8 3proxy alternatives
3Proxy tiny free proxy server is really tiny cross-platform (Win32/Win64&Unix) freeware proxy servers set. It includes HTTP proxy with HTTPS and FTP support, SOCKSv4/SOCKSv4.5/SOCKSv5 proxy (socks/socks.exe), POP3 proxy, SMTP proxy, AIM/ICQ proxy (icqpr/icqpr.
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This site has a poor reputation on WOT. You can see the comments on http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/3proxy.ru#page-3
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Artica Proxy
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Free Personal • Open Source
Linux
9 Artica Proxy alternatives
ARTICA Proxy is an enterprise grade security appliance : web filtering (w/o SSL decryption), DNS Filtering, bandwith optimisation, easy ACL management, users authentication on LDAP or Active Directory (NTLM/Kerberos), deployment tools (such as proxy.
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Artica Proxy Features
HTTP Proxy
Web filter
DNS Proxy
discrimiNAT
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Paid • Proprietary
Linux
Self-Hosted
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud Platform
1 discrimiNAT alternatives
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.
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discrimiNAT Features
Google Cloud
Dns
ExaProxy
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
Linux
BSD
8 ExaProxy alternatives
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.
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ExaProxy Features
HTTP Proxy
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