preload VS proxychains-ng

Compare preload vs proxychains-ng and see what are their differences.

preload

preload is an adaptive readahead daemon that prefetches files mapped by applications from the disk to reduce application startup time. (by arunanshub)

proxychains-ng

proxychains ng (new generation) - a preloader which hooks calls to sockets in dynamically linked programs and redirects it through one or more socks/http proxies. continuation of the unmaintained proxychains project. the sf.net page is currently not updated, use releases from github release page instead. (by rofl0r)
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preload proxychains-ng
2 7
9 9,445
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3.0 4.6
4 months ago 21 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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preload

Posts with mentions or reviews of preload. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

proxychains-ng

Posts with mentions or reviews of proxychains-ng. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing preload and proxychains-ng you can also consider the following projects:

systemd - The systemd System and Service Manager

sshuttle - Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin. Works with Linux and MacOS. Supports DNS tunneling.

route-resource-preload - 🚀 Focus on improving the first screen loading speed of applications and providing the best user experience, inspiration comes from the preloading of NextJS. (https://web.dev/route-prefetching-in-nextjs/)

3proxy - 3proxy - tiny free proxy server

ish - Linux shell for iOS

haproxy - HAProxy Load Balancer's development branch (mirror of git.haproxy.org)

Ventoy - A new bootable USB solution.

torsocks - Library to torify application - NOTE: upstream has been moved to https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git

bhook - :fire: ByteHook is an Android PLT hook library which supports armeabi-v7a, arm64-v8a, x86 and x86_64.

ts-warp - Transparent proxy server and traffic wrapper

rbtray - A fork of RBTray from http://sourceforge.net/p/rbtray/code/.

Dobby - a lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture hook framework.