Proxomitron 4.5 Fileforum Pick

4.0 out of 5 stars 4.0 (44 votes)

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Windows 2000/9x/Server 2003/XP / Freeware / 17,217 downloads

Proxomitron features a powerful HTML text matching engine able to dynamically alter web pages on the fly. Works with any browser to eliminate cyber-spam like pop-up windows, alerts, banners, animated GIFs, auto-play music, sounds, dynamic HTML, and more. Replace background images with your own, rewrite JavaScripts, even filter normally hidden HTTP header messages. Over 50 filters are included, and equally powerful filters can be created. Selectively replace most any HTML text or tags.

Reviews of Proxomitron

  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    mmmmpower

    Reviewing 4.5 (Feb 25, 2011)

    GREAT software never dies.. even when the developer himself does

    (I miss JD5000, too)

    there is an active, AVID community developing filter sets for proxomitron

    [Bfilter is worth trying]

    If you crave a spiffier interface and do not need SSL filtering try proximodo

    God bless Scott R Lemmon!

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    fv1fv

    Reviewing 4.5 (Aug 14, 2009)

    The anybrowser sh11t blocker. Runs through WINE. Gentoo Dapper, Tiger: Platinum , Gold http://appdb.winehq.org/...=application&iId=39
    Takes a while to learn the tools prx has. But noobz can still use. Be sure to download a current filterset.
    How-to's? Filter syntax resembles regex. Prx also has builtin "commands" (like functions). Reread Scott's help html often.
    Castlecops is down, but there's yahoo group and prxbx.com/forums, and google for some old pages with good info. Users who write filters tend to become specialists. :-)

    Constantly hoping an oss team will consider a fresh rewrite of this unique app. Would like an easier config-interface. A full "IDE" would be nice.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    Aires

    Reviewing 4.5 (Mar 6, 2008)

    Seeing as how there's not been a review of Proxomitron for nearly 4 years I thought I'd post one to say it still works, filters are still regularly updated and released, and it's still as effective and trouble free as ever. I highly recommend this over paid versions - still outstanding after all this time and the author is sadly missed.

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    kmleow

    Reviewing 4.5 (Aug 14, 2004)

    The best proxy server with filtering feature. Customise the filters the way you want it. Imagine what you can do with it. Let say there is a website that requires you to click on a button every 10 minutes. What you can do is to program proxomitron to rewrite the webpage to include javascripts that auto-loads the said page after 10 minutes. Good eh? Sounds like cheating paid-to-surf programs.

    I submitted several filters to Scott long time ago.

    It is sad that he passed away.

    I hope Scott's family would release the source code of Proxomitron so that this superb program can be maintained by the fans.

    Privoxy is a good open source alternative to this program. However, the most recent version I tested 3.0.3, waits for the entire page to be downloaded before the filtering engine kicks in. This is not a good way to do it.

    Proxomitron starts filtering without waiting for the entire page to be fully downloaded first.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    coppit

    Reviewing 4.5 (Jul 30, 2004)

    I love this program, but the author is dead. :(

    Does anyone know of a good alternative? Privoxy? Webwasher?

Discuss Proxomitron

  1. Feb 25, 2011 - 5:01 PM
    mmmmpower

    intelligent interweb searching will yeild the half dozen communities releasing fitler sets ;)