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.

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  1. uAdBlock icon
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    uAdBlock is a system-wide adblocker that works with hostlists. Several sources are available to download and integrate these hostlists.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Ubuntu Touch
     
  2. WebCensor icon
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    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
     
  3. fadblock icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  4. E2Guardian icon
     4 likes

    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
     
  5. Trustnav icon
     3 likes

    A safer browsing experience, free of malware, distracting ads & invasive tracking.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
     
  6. GlimmerBlocker icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Safari
     
  7. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Internet Explorer
     
  8. 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
     
  9. An extension to control requests. Provides front-end for Firefox webRequest.onBeforeRequest API for request management.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Firefox
     
  10. BFilter icon
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    BFilter is a filtering web proxy. It was originally intended for removing banner ads only, but since then its capabilities have been greatly extended. Unlike most of the similar tools, it doesn't rely on blacklists (although it does support them).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Better Pop Up Blocker improves the default pop up blockers for Google Chrome and Apple Safari by blocking pop up windows opened by javascript, & other annoyances like alert, prompt, and confirm boxes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
     
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