Debloat The Internet With a Self-Hosted Compressing Proxy
Debloat The Internet With A Self-Hosted Compressing Proxy No comments by: Tyler August October 3, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy It’s no secret that the size of webpages has been slowly — or not so slowly — creeping up over the years. Does a simple website need to span multiple floppy disks? [PortalRunner’s] doesn’t — or rather, he doesn’t want to burn that much of his limited mobile data. So he built a self-hosted HTTPS proxy to compress images and websites, block ads, and save his bandwidth.
- ▪Debloat The Internet With A Self-Hosted Compressing Proxy No comments by: Tyler August October 3, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy It’s no secret that the size of webpages has been slowly — or not so slowly — creeping up over the years.
- ▪Does a simple website need to span multiple floppy disks? [PortalRunner’s] doesn’t — or rather, he doesn’t want to burn that much of his limited mobile data.
- ▪So he built a self-hosted HTTPS proxy to compress images and websites, block ads, and save his bandwidth.
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| Original publisher | Hackaday |
| Canonical URL | https://hackaday.com/2026/10/03/debloat-the-internet-with-a-self-hosted-compressing-proxy/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 04 Oct 2026 05:00:40 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-04T05:04:46.357Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-04T05:04:46.357Z |
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Debloat The Internet With A Self-Hosted Compressing Proxy No comments by: Tyler August October 3, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy It’s no secret that the size of webpages has been slowly — or not so slowly — creeping up over the years. Does a simple website need to span multiple floppy disks? [PortalRunner’s] doesn’t — or rather, he doesn’t want to burn that much of his limited mobile data. So he built a self-hosted HTTPS proxy to compress images and websites, block ads, and save his bandwidth. The proxy itself is based on mitmproxy rather than reinventing the wheel.
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