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> The Proxomitron

Googling this, development ended in 2004? An informed summary of the current state of play would be interesting, since a lot of different "continuations" of it seem to be around. Also, is it Windows-only? (I've been casually looking for a simple proxy that would enable injection of local links into remote content.)

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Privacy might be what you're after. Open source and cross platform.

That's impossible to google.

Didn't help that they spelled the name incorrectly, but I found it :D

https://github.com/barre/privaxy

In this case "incorrectly" is what makes it possible to find it, search-engine-autocorrect-stupidity aside. The name is obviously a combination of privacy and proxy. There's another one called Privoxy which works on similar principles.

Apologies, I meant Privoxy. Privaxy looks pretty decent too, but I've never used it.

Auto-correct issue?

We call that Auto co-wrecked or maybe a spill check.

Sorry all, I meant Privoxy. Didn't even realise Privaxy was a thing.

(With thanks to your grandchild) https://github.com/barre/privaxy seems definitely worth a look - thanks!

How does this compare to adguard home???

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardHome

Adguard seems to offer blocking only, whereas Privaxy "is able ... to inject scripts as well as styles into HTML documents", which was the feature my comment expressed interest in.

The readme goes on to say: "Privaxy is also way more capable than DNS-based blockers as it is able to operate directly on URLs and to inject resources into web pages."

One acts as a proxy while the other one is a DNS server. Different tools

> Windows-only

Can’t Wine help with this?

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