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.
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At a glance
Privoxy quick facts
- Health score
- 10/100 STALE
- Stars
- Not measured
- Last commit
- Not measured
- Latest release
- Not measured
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
Top alternatives to Privoxy
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Privoxy scores 10/100, #8 of 9 in Proxy: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 0.0 / 20
0 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 0
- Last 12 months
- unknown
- Last push
Ranked #8 of 9 tools in Proxy by health , between Outline Server (#7) and Squid (#9) .
Details
Privoxy vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Privoxy (Proxy), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sish | 94 | 4.8k | MIT | 3 days ago |
| GitProxy | 90 | 262 | Apache-2.0 | today |
| g3proxy | 77 | 893 | Apache-2.0 | 5 days ago |
| Tinyproxy | 61 | 6k | GPL-2.0 | 1 month ago |
| socks5-proxy-server | 46 | 145 | Apache-2.0 | 9 days ago |
| Privoxy (this tool) | 10 | 0 | GPL-2.0 | unknown |