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Squid

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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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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

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Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Self-Hosted
  • FreeBSD
  • NetBSD
  • OpenBSD
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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused

Features

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

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Squid information

  • Developed by

    Unknown
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
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  • Alternatives

    24 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

File SharingSecurity & PrivacyNetwork & Admin

GitHub repository

  •  2,559 Stars
  •  564 Forks
  •  147 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jul 14, 2025 
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Squid, and it has gotten 58 likes

Squid was added to AlternativeTo by Pablo_Mendoza on Jan 30, 2010 and this page was last updated Sep 14, 2024.

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Artemp
Oct 16, 2013
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No open source proxy server alternative for Windows? :(

Danilo_Venom
Oct 18, 2013

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.

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