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Squid Guard

Squid Guard is censorware, not Squid, however it does not have an article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Midnightcomm (talk • contribs) 00:07, 17 January 2006

You're right. I'm removing that category. I have a squidGuard article brewing. Gskuse 06:17, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Judgmental IPv6 statement

"However,the lack of IPv6 support, even as of 2006 in any official versions of Squid is a glaring omission."---This is judgmental and out of place in an encyclopaedia. One might lower in the article say that "the lack of such-and-such has been viewed as a glaring omission"; for the time being I'll simply alter it to "However, even the most recent official version of Squid lacks IPv6 support." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.108.77.12 (talk • contribs) 00:05, 28 July 2006

The development version (3.0) includes initial support for IPv6, I've edited accordingly. Gskuse 06:20, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Technology

Souids are related to octopuses but squids have 10 tentacles not 8 like octopus. How many gigabytes can it store on its hard drive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.59.102.57 (talk • contribs) 17:26, 30 July 2006

Squid appears to only be limited by the bounds of the OS and file system used for cache_dir. It also supports multiple cache dirs in parallel (ie: you can have 2 cache dirs on separate disks and squid will spread the load between them). If anyone has information to the contrary, it can be added here. I operate with two 70 GB cache dirs. --71.248.110.143 (talk) 17:42, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Privacy concerns

Squid can violate people's privacy. It has anonymising features etc. etc. which the admin can enable if that's what the admin wants. It also has logging features, which can be useful, and/or they can be use to track users' browsing habits - without the user knowing that any logging is happening, and without the user knowing what logging is possible. This can't be ignored in the article. Gronky 00:52, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Squidrunner

The link to "Squidrunner" looks rather like link-spam to me. Is it seriously worth inclusion? ~hugo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.101.108.218 (talk • contribs) 02:03, 29 November 2006

Fair use rationale for Image:Squid-cache logo.jpg

Image:Squid-cache logo.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:33, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Youtube Reference

Not sure if this is accurate, as to youtube's technique and approach. Will be researching.--rocketrye12^{talk/contribs} 01:58, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

looks like an ad got into the article

Saini, Kulbir (2011). Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner's Guide. Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-849-51390-6.

packt really got aggressive with their ads. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.28.172.183 (talk) 03:23, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Is hatnote necessary?

I previously removed the hatnote in Special:Diff/496638508 in June 2012 on grounds of WP:NAMB. It was added back by @Miraclexix: in Special:Diff/649981474 in March 2015.

I am aware that WP:Hatnote, of which NAMB is a section, is just a guideline rather than policy, but this article seems to be a textbook case because the disambiguation page does not list any other software named exactly "Squid." I just want to make sure no one will object to my removing the hatnote again. --SoledadKabocha (talk) 04:31, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]