proxychains-ng vs Dobby

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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Dobby

a lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture hook framework. (by jmpews)

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proxychains-ng		Dobby
	Project
7	Mentions	3
9,445	Stars	3,796
-	Growth	-
4.6	Activity	6.6
23 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
C	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	Apache License 2.0

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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.

Using proxy password with a program that doesn't take a proxy password
2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 11 Jun 2022

Chrome lets you set a proxy but not a username or password but I have a proxy that can only be authenticated with a password. I tried using proxychains-ng but that doesn't work with Chrome https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng/issues/45.
Is it possible to encrypt my browsing data in a public wi-fi without using a VPN?
1 project | /r/AskNetsec | 20 Dec 2021
locate proxychains
2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 29 Sep 2021

You should use proxychains4, you can build it yourself https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng, I like using sshuttle project, kinda like a pseudovpn https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle
Why my proxy file didn't have anything? I'm new to linux. I don't really understand how to explain my problem. Everytime I watched guide on how to setup proxy theirs always have a bunch of 'things' in proxychains.conf but mine just didn't show up. Sorry for bad English.
1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 11 Sep 2021

In the source code of proxychains-ng, there is the basic proxychains.conf file. You could use that.
How to protect my IP when performing attacks, gathering information etc
1 project | /r/Hacking_Tutorials | 11 Aug 2021

Proxychains is no longer maintained, instead use proxychains-ng for an updated version
Is there any alternative for proxyfier on linux?
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 18 Jul 2021

Your options are tsocks or proxychains-ng
Is there any program similar to proxychains on arch?
1 project | /r/archlinux | 29 Jun 2021

Dobby

Posts with mentions or reviews of Dobby. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-27.

Dobby – lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture exploit hook framework
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jul 2022
iOS memory hook - Theos tweak
4 projects | /r/jailbreakdevelopers | 27 Mar 2021

What are some alternatives?

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

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.

android-inline-hook - :fire: ShadowHook is an Android inline hook library which supports thumb, arm32 and arm64.

3proxy - 3proxy - tiny free proxy server

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

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

FlyJB-X - You can HIDE Doing jailbreak your iDevice.

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

AppInitHook - Global user-mode hooking framework, based on AppInit_DLLs. The goal is to allow you to rapidly develop hooks to inject in an arbitrary process.

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

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

ts-warp - Transparent proxy server and traffic wrapper