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Does anyone remember Privoxy https://www.privoxy.org/ ? I've been filtering and removing junk from the web since the early 2000s.

With https now prevalent, filtering with a proxy server remains annoying. I vastly prefer the model of uBlock Origin for desktops, and a combination of Firefox + uBlock origin and a dns blocker (Blokada) on Android.

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I'm still using it and very happy with it. It's showing his age but it still works well and it's very powerful: I'm not just blocking ads and trackers but I also have some fancy redirects and filters.

I hacked together a solution for https that uses a proxy to strip and rewrap TLS. It's not ideal and I would like replace it with something more reliable and fast but I couldn't find any software that does this.

What about https://www.admuncher.com ? :) Since 1999.

Ad Muncher is broken/abandonware (hasn't been updated since 2014).

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