Privoxy – non-caching web proxy

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.

Key Features

• 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.

Website: www.privoxy.org
Support: User Manual
Developer: Fabian Keil (lead developer), David Schmidt, and many other contributors
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

Privoxy is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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