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Squid

Squid is a 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.

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  • Windows
  • Linux
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  • FreeBSD
  • NetBSD
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  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  No registration required
  2.  No Tracking
  3.  Ad-free
  4.  HTTP Proxy

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  • TBayAreaPat commented on Squid

    "Squid is primarily server-oriented software, commonly used to provide a shared proxy for a network, cache content, enforce access rules, or reduce load on web servers.": "Squid is a powerful proxy, but configuring and managing a complete secure web gateway solution may require significant administrative efforts. (other program) Web Filtering Proxy gives you an easy-to-use Admin UI, advanced web filtering, and Microsoft Active Directory integration out of the box. No complex Squid configuration...

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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Squid, and it has gotten 59 likes

Squid was added to AlternativeTo by Pablo_Mendoza on and this page was last updated .

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TBayAreaPat
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"Squid is primarily server-oriented software, commonly used to provide a shared proxy for a network, cache content, enforce access rules, or reduce load on web servers.": "Squid is a powerful proxy, but configuring and managing a complete secure web gateway solution may require significant administrative efforts. (other program) Web Filtering Proxy gives you an easy-to-use Admin UI, advanced web filtering, and Microsoft Active Directory integration out of the box. No complex Squid configuration required."

Artemp
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No open source proxy server alternative for Windows? :(

Danilo Venom
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What is Squid?

Squid is a 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.