Privoxy
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| Developer(s) | Privoxy Developers |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2001 |
| Stable release | 3.0.34[1]  (5 February 2023) [±] |
| Preview release | 3.0.25 (July 26, 2016) [±] |
GNU GPLv2 | |
| Website | www |
Privoxy is a free non-caching web proxy with filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, manipulating cookies and modifying web page data and HTTP headers before the page is rendered by the browser. Privoxy is a "privacy enhancing proxy", filtering web pages and removing advertisements. Privoxy can be customized by users, for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.[2] Privoxy can be chained to other proxies and is frequently used in combination with Squid among others and can be used to bypass Internet censorship.[3]
History
Privoxy is based on the
Tor Browser project and recommended against external third party proxies. Privoxy still works if manually configured and is still recommended for third party non-browser applications which do not natively support SOCKS.[5]
Reception
Shashank Sharma of Wired called it "an outstanding way to protect one's privacy".[8]
See also
- Content-control software
- Web accelerator which discusses host-based HTTP acceleration
- Proxy server which discusses client-side proxies
- Reverse proxy which discusses origin-side proxies
- Internet Cache Protocol
- Polipo, a caching web proxy server
- Proxomitron, a similar content-filtering proxy for Windows
References
- ^ "v_3_0_34". 5 February 2023. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ "Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions".
- Linux Magazin(in German) (March 2012). Retrieved 2014-03-27.
- ^ Brockmeier, Joe (2005-06-17). "Tool of the Month: Privoxy". Dr. Dobb's Journal. Retrieved 2014-03-27.
- ^ "FAQ". Tor. Archived from the original on Dec 27, 2018.
- Tech Radar.
- ^ Zukerman, Erez (2012-03-19). "Avoid Ads and Creepy Tracking Scripts With Privoxy". PC World. Archived from the original on Mar 28, 2014. Retrieved 2014-03-27.
- Wired. Archived from the originalon 2014-04-18. Retrieved 2014-03-27.