For 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.
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Privaxy Alternatives
Privaxy is described as 'The next generation tracker and advertisement blocker. It blocks ads and trackers by MITMing HTTP(s) traffic' and is a Ad Blocker in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Privaxy for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Google Chrome, Linux and Microsoft Edge apps. The best Privaxy alternative is uBlock Origin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Privaxy are Adblock Plus, AdGuard, Pi-hole and Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker.
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19 Polipo alternativesA 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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Discontinued
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- Windows
- Linux
Browse the web like it should be – free of nags to accept cookies or privacy invasive tracking. It's tiny, fast, free, open, secure and without any access to your data.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
- Open Source
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- Windows
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Yandex Browser
- Opera
- Mozilla Firefox
Proximodo 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.
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...
56 Ad Muncher alternativesAd Muncher is a powerful advert and popup blocking system for all browsers and advert-displaying programs like Pando, SopCast, ICQ, Morpheus, Kazaa, Grokster, Opera, PalTalk, iMesh, Bearshare, LimeWire, TVAnts.
An extension to control requests. Provides front-end for Firefox webRequest.onBeforeRequest API for request management.
The upribox Software turns your RaspberryPi into a privacy-enhancing Wireless router with adblocking, Tor, and a VPN server.
An agent-based web filter that blocks websites based on URLs and categories. Internet use quotas can be set based on schedules and timers. Includes a port filter and Windows application blocker.
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BrowseControl is the most popular commercial alternative to Privaxy.
- BrowseControl is Paid and Proprietary
Take control of your browsing experience with AdFender... Block banner ads, video ads, pop-ups, trackers and more.
DansGuardian is an award winning Open Source web content filter which currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, HP-UX, and Solaris. It filters the actual content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, PICS filtering and URL filtering.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
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