irbis-sh/zen-desktop
Zen Desktop
Zen Desktop ist ein plattformübergreifender Proxy-Client und Netzwerk-Request-Filter für Windows, macOS und Linux. Es fungiert als systemweiter Adblocker und Datenschutz-Tool, das den Netzwerkverkehr über alle Anwendungen des Betriebssystems hinweg abfängt, um Werbung, Tracker und Malware zu blockieren.
Die Software verwendet ein Netzwerk-Request-Filtersystem, das HTTP-Header modifiziert und JSON-Daten mithilfe benutzerdefinierter Regeln und regulärer Ausdrücke bereinigt. Es entfernt gezielt Tracking-Parameter und bereinigt Netzwerk-Header, um Aktivitätsüberwachung zu verhindern.
Das Projekt bietet Funktionen für die Blocklisten-Verwaltung via URL-Synchronisation, Request-Blocking basierend auf URL-Mustern und Metadaten sowie Inhaltsmanipulation wie JavaScript-Sanitisierung und das Bereinigen von URL-Query-Parametern. Es enthält zudem Tools zur Inspektion von Netzwerkanfragen und zur Protokollierung der Request-Historie, um blockierten Datenverkehr spezifischen Filterregeln zuzuordnen.
Das Utility ermöglicht den Ausschluss spezifischer Anwendungen vom Traffic-Filtering über eine konfigurierbare Routing-Bypass-Liste.
Features
- Intercepting Proxies - Functions as an intercepting proxy that routes all system network traffic through a central handler for analysis and blocking.
- Malicious Traffic Blocking - Intercepts and blocks system-wide network traffic to known malicious domains, trackers, and advertisement servers.
- Cross-Platform Proxy Clients - A cross-platform desktop utility for Windows, macOS, and Linux that manages network traffic routing.
- HTTP Header Manipulators - Intercepts and modifies HTTP request and response headers to enhance user privacy.
- System Proxy Controllers - Manages operating system proxy settings to redirect all system-wide traffic through a central filtering core.
- System-Wide Ad Blocking - Stops advertisements and trackers across all operating system applications by filtering network traffic.
- Tracking Parameter Removers - Provides utilities to strip identifying query arguments from URLs to prevent user tracking.
- External Filter List Integrations - Implements capabilities for importing and periodically synchronizing third-party rule sets from remote URLs.
- Traffic Blocking Patterns - Stops network traffic using URL patterns, regular expressions, and wildcard hostnames.
- Domain Blocklists - Provides tools for importing and managing custom lists of domains and URL patterns to restrict network access.
- Malicious Domain Filtering - Intercepts and blocks network requests to known malicious domains and servers.
- Privacy Protection - Prevents user monitoring and tracking by removing tracking parameters and sanitizing network headers.
- Request Pattern Matching - Evaluates network URLs against regular expressions and wildcards to determine if requests should be blocked.
- Ad Blockers - A proxy-based application that intercepts and filters network requests system-wide to block ads and trackers.
- Network Request Filters - Intercepts and modifies network requests using custom rules and regular expressions.
- Response Pruning - Parses JSON response bodies and removes specific elements via JSONPath to strip tracking data.
- Script Sanitization - Scans JavaScript source code to replace tracking variables and keys with random identifiers.
- JSON Body Modifiers - Modifies JSON response bodies using JSONPath expressions to remove unwanted tracking data.
- Network Request Interceptors - Provides a mechanism to monitor and inspect network traffic to map blocked requests to specific filter rules.
- Proxy Bypass Lists - Prevents specific software from routing traffic through the system proxy via a configurable exclusion list.
- Application-Specific Routing - Provides granular routing controls to allow specific applications to bypass the system proxy.
- Blocklist Synchronisations - Imports pre-installed filters or custom rules via URL synchronization to define blocking criteria.
- Script Sanitization - Removes top-level variables or replaces keys in JavaScript source code to disrupt tracking scripts.
- HTTP Request Filtering - Inspects and filters HTTP requests based on methods, content types, and domains to block unwanted traffic.
