Privoxy
| Privoxy | |
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| Developer | Privoxy Developers |
| Release | 2001 |
| Stable release | 4.2.0  (2 June 2026) [±] |
| Preview release | 3.0.25 (July 26, 2016) [±] |
| Written in | C |
| Type | Filtering proxy |
| License | GNU GPLv2 |
| Website | www |
| Repository | sourceforge |
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.