A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari designed to be performant, efficient, and effective.
Privoxy Alternatives
Privoxy is described as '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' and is a popular Ad Blocker in the web browsers category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Privoxy for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Google Chrome, Linux and Mozilla Firefox apps. The best Privoxy alternative is uBlock Origin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Privoxy are Adblock Plus, AdGuard, NextDNS and Privacy Badger.
Alternatives list
uAdBlock is a system-wide adblocker that works with hostlists. Several sources are available to download and integrate these hostlists.
WebCensor is profanity filter for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers. In addition, you can use it as content filter, as it uses not only the predefined list of bad, curse, cuss, offensive, swear words but also the ability to add your own custom filters which people will.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Google Chrome
- Opera
- Firefox
Technitium DNS Server is an open source tool that can be used as a personal local DNS server for privacy & security. It includes Ad blocking feature combined with DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS support.
This was posted over reddit a few months ago, Apparently Ad Blockers are not allowed on Youtube. Is this a new thing they've implemented? and judging by all the recent comments and posts all over r/youtube, this change was just rolled out on a larger scale.
e2guardian is an Open Source web content filter, It filters the actual content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, request header and URL filtering, etc. It does not purely filter based on a banned list of sites.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
The problem with other ad-blockers for Safari is that they are implemented as awful hacks: as an InputManager and/or ApplicationEnhancer. This compromises the stability of Safari and very often create problems when Apple releases a new version of Safari.
An extension to control requests. Provides front-end for Firefox webRequest.onBeforeRequest API for request management.
Quero AdBlock IE XML is an InPrivate Filtering XML-based Ad Blocker for Internet Explorer 8 and Quero AdBlock IE TPL is an ad blocking Tracking Protection List (TPL) for Internet Explorer 9.
Ad Blocker is a web browser extension that blocks ads and trackers from following its users when surfing the internet.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
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