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.
Squid Alternatives for Windows
There are many alternatives to Squid for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows 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 11 are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Squid are WinGate, Polipo, HandyCache and CCProxy.
Alternatives list
59 Privoxy alternatives
13 WinGate alternativesWinGate 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.
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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- Free
- Open Source
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- Windows
- Linux
Proxy server for Internet distribution on the local network at home, at school or in a small business. You can also run HC on the same computer you are working on. In this case, you will be able to speed up the loading of pages in your browser, save traffic and money for its...
7 CCProxy alternativesWant to share Internet connection? Get every computer online through a single Internet connection? Maximize the efficiency of your Internet access on a limited budget? Look no further! Get CCProxy, a small Internet sharing software!
23 Proxomitron alternativesFor 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.
8 3proxy alternatives3Proxy 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.
11 Zscaler alternativesZscaler 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.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- iPhone
- iPad
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
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38 Proximodo alternativesProximodo 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.
40 Privaxy alternativesPrivaxy is the next generation tracker and advertisement blocker. It blocks ads and trackers by MITMing HTTP(s) traffic.
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8 TBlock alternativesTBlock is a content blocker that uses the hosts file (that is present in all operating systems) to block undesired websites.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
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It accomplishes the same thing except for one feature: the caching aspect.