Privoxy
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.
Developed outside the platforms our data source measures, so there is no activity history to score. This says nothing about the project — many unrated projects are actively maintained.
Activity data
Not available for this project. Our source collects commit history from GitHub only, and Privoxy is developed elsewhere.
| Stars | not measured |
|---|---|
| Latest release | — |
| Repo updated | — |
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Built with | C, deb |
Is Privoxy actively maintained?
We cannot measure this one. Privoxy is developed outside the platforms our data source collects activity from, and its repository lives at www.privoxy.org — so there is no commit history or release cadence here to score.
Read that as missing data, not as a warning. Several of the best-maintained projects in this catalogue are unrated for exactly this reason. To judge it, open the repository and look at the date of the most recent commit yourself.
What Privoxy actually does
Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy designed to filter web traffic before it reaches your browser. It inspects and modifies HTTP headers, strips out unwanted content like advertisements, and helps enforce privacy controls on web requests. As a traditional proxy, it sits between your client applications and the wider internet.
Best fit: It is suitable for administrators looking to centrally filter web traffic, remove advertisements, and manipulate HTTP headers across multiple client devices without relying on browser extensions.
Worth knowing: The project lacks recent release activity and commit data, meaning you may need to rely on community patches or older package versions for security updates. Additionally, configuring complex filtering rules via text configuration files requires a steep learning curve.
Deployment notes
Written in C and distributed as a standard Debian package, it typically runs as a lightweight daemon without requiring an external database. You will generally configure it to listen on a local port and point your system or browser proxy settings directly to it.
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