Privoxy
Privacy-enhancing web proxy with content filtering
Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web content, and removing ads and trackers. It can be self-hosted as a network-wide privacy layer.
Key features
- Content filtering
- Ad and tracker removal
- Header rewriting
- Flexible rule actions
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Strong privacy controls
- Highly configurable
Trade-offs
- Rule syntax is dense
- No caching
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