Privoxy
Privoxy (Privacy Enhancing Proxy) is a 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.
Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit
individual needs and tastes. It supports both stand-alone
systems and multi-user networks.
Privoxy uses the concept of actions in order to manipulate the
data stream between the browser and remote sites.
Features include:
- Ad blocking
- Cookie management
- Supports "Connection: keep-alive". Outgoing connections can
be kept alive independently from the client
- Supports IPv6
- Tagging which allows to change the behaviour based on
client and server headers
- Run as an "intercepting" proxy
- Sophisticated actions and filters for manipulating both
server and client headers
- Can be chained with other proxies
- Integrated browser-based configuration and control utility.
Browser-based tracing of rule and filter effects. Remote toggling
- Web page filtering (text replacements, removes banners
based on size, invisible "web-bugs" and HTML annoyances, etc)
- Modularized configuration that allows for standard settings
and user settings to reside in separate files, so that installing
updated actions files won't overwrite individual user settings
- Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the
configuration files, and a more sophisticated and flexible
configuration syntax
- GIF de-animation
- Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script
redirection)
- User-customizable HTML templates for most proxy-generated
pages (e.g. "blocked" page)
- Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes
- Most features are controllable on a per-site or
per-location basis
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