Privoxy
Sign in to savePrivoxy 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. 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.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Privoxy
- Software.logo
- Privoxy Icon.png
- Software.caption
- Privoxy on Windows XP
- Software.developer
- Privoxy Developers
- Software.released
- 2001
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.genre
- Filtering proxy
- Software.license
- GNU GPLv2
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.privoxy.org
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- software version identifier
- 4.1.0
- inception
- 2001-00-00
- Commons category
- Privoxy
- source code repository URL
- ssh://[email protected]:23/git/privoxy.git
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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. 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.
==History== Privoxy is based on the Internet Junkbuster and is released under the GNU General Public License. It runs on Linux, OpenWrt, DD-WRT, Windows, macOS, OS/2, AmigaOS, BeOS, and most flavors of Unix. Almost any Web browser can use it. The software is hosted at SourceForge. Historically the Tor Project bundled Privoxy with Tor but this was discontinued in 2010 as they pushed their own internal 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.