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Questions</th>
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<h1 class="SECT1"><a name="GENERAL" id="GENERAL">1. General
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Information</a></h1>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a name="WHO-USES" id="WHO-USES">1.1. Who should give
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<span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> a try?</a></h3>
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<p>Anyone who is interested in security, privacy, or in finer-grained
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control over their web and Internet experience.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a name="BESTCHOICE" id="BESTCHOICE">1.2. Is Privoxy
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the best choice for me?</a></h3>
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<p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is certainly a good choice,
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especially for those who want more control and security. Those with the
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willingness to read the documentation and the ability to fine-tune
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their installation will benefit the most.</p>
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<p>One of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> strengths is that
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it is highly configurable giving you the ability to completely
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personalize your installation. Being familiar with, or at least having
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an interest in learning about <a href=
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"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Http" target="_top">HTTP</a> and other
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networking protocols, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html"
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target="_top">HTML</a>, and <a href=
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"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions" target=
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"_top"><span class="QUOTE">"Regular Expressions"</span></a> will be a
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big plus and will help you get the most out of <span class=
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"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. A new installation just includes a very
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basic configuration. The user should take this as a starting point
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only, and enhance it as he or she sees fit. In fact, the user is
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encouraged, and expected to, fine-tune the configuration.</p>
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<p>Much of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> configuration can
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be done with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser"
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target="_top">Web browser</a>. But there are areas where configuration
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is done using a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_editors"
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target="_top">text editor</a> to edit configuration files. Also note
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that the web-based action editor doesn't use authentication and should
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only be enabled in environments where all clients with access to
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<span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> listening port can be
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trusted.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a name="PROXYMORON" id="PROXYMORON">1.3. What is a
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<span class="QUOTE">"proxy"</span>? How does Privoxy work?</a></h3>
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<p>A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server" target=
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"_top">web proxy</a> is a service, based on a software such as
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<span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, that clients (i.e. browsers)
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can use instead of connecting to web servers directly. The clients then
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ask the proxy to request objects (web pages, images, movies etc) on
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their behalf and to forward the data to the clients. It is a
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<span class="QUOTE">"go-between"</span>. For details, see <a href=
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"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server" target="_top">Wikipedia's
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proxy definition</a>.</p>
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<p>There are many reasons to use web proxies, such as security
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(firewalling), efficiency (caching) and others, and there are any
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number of proxies to accommodate those needs.</p>
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<p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is a proxy that is
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primarily focused on privacy enhancement, ad and junk elimination and
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freeing the user from restrictions placed on his activities. Sitting
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between your browser(s) and the Internet, it is in a perfect position
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to filter outbound personal information that your browser is leaking,
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as well as inbound junk. It uses a variety of techniques to do this,
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all of which are under your complete control via the various
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configuration files and options. Being a proxy also makes it easier to
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share configurations among multiple browsers and/or users.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a name="OTHERSTUFF" id="OTHERSTUFF">1.4. Does
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Privoxy do anything more than ad blocking?</a></h3>
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<p>Yes, ad blocking is but one possible use. There are many, many ways
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<span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can be used to sanitize and
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customize web browsing.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a name="NEWJB" id="NEWJB">1.5. What is this new
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version of <span class="QUOTE">"Junkbuster"</span>?</a></h3>
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<p>A long time ago, there was the <a href=
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"http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html" target="_top"><span class=
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"APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span></a>, by Anonymous Coders and
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<a href="http://www.junkbusters.com/" target="_top">Junkbusters
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Corporation</a>. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days
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of web advertising and user tracking.</p>
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<p>But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the
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techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their
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browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the
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<span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> did not. Version
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2.0.2, published in 1998, was (and is) the last official <a href=
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"http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release" target=
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"_top">release</a> available from <a href="http://www.junkbusters.com"
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target="_top">Junkbusters Corporation</a>. Fortunately, it had been
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released under the GNU <a href=
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"http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
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"_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.</p>
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<p>So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
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software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
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It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a
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first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on
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the original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1
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support, flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The
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last release from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in
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2000.</p>
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<p>Then, some <a href=
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"http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS" target=
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"_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started turning the
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software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding many
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<a href="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
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target="_top">new features</a> along the way.</p>
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<p>The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
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whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN85" id="AEN85">1.6. Why <span class=
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"QUOTE">"Privoxy"</span>? Why change the name from Junkbuster at
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all?</a></h3>
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<p>Though outdated, <a href="http://junkbusters.com/" target=
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"_top">Junkbusters Corporation</a> continues to offer their original
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version of the <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span>, so
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publishing our <span class="APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span>-derived
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software under the same name led to confusion.</p>
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<p>There are also potential legal complications from our use of the
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<span class="APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> name, which is a registered
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trademark of <a href="http://junkbusters.com/" target=
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"_top">Junkbusters Corporation</a>. There are, however, no objections
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from Junkbusters Corporation to the <span class=
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"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> project itself, and they, in fact, still
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share our ideals and goals.</p>
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<p>The developers also believed that there are so many improvements
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over the original code, that it was time to make a clean break from the
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past and make a name in their own right.</p>
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<p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is the <span class=
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"QUOTE">"<span class="emphasis EMPHASIS c2">Privacy Enhancing
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Proxy</span>"</span>. Also, its content modification and junk
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suppression gives <span class="emphasis EMPHASIS c2">you</span>, the
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user, more control, more freedom, and allows you to browse your
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personal and <span class="QUOTE">"<span class=
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"emphasis EMPHASIS c2">private</span> edition"</span> of the web.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a name="DIFFERS" id="DIFFERS">1.7. How does Privoxy
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differ from the old Junkbuster?</a></h3>
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<p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> picks up where <span class=
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"APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> left off. The new <span class=
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"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> still blocks ads and banners, still
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manages <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie" target=
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"_top">cookies</a>, and still helps protect your privacy. But, most of
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these features have been enhanced, and many new ones have been added,
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all in the same vein.</p>
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<p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s new features include:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<p>Supports "Connection: keep-alive". Outgoing connections can be
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kept alive independently from the client.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Supports IPv6, provided the operating system does so too, and
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the configure script detects it.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Supports tagging which allows to change the behaviour based on
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client and server headers.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Can be run as an "intercepting" proxy, which obviates the need
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to configure browsers individually.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Sophisticated actions and filters for manipulating both server
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and client headers.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Can be chained with other proxies.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Integrated browser-based configuration and control utility at
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<a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target=
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"_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a> (shortcut: <a href=
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"http://p.p/" target="_top">http://p.p/</a>). Browser-based tracing
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of rule and filter effects. Remote toggling.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Web page filtering (text replacements, removes banners based on
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size, invisible <span class="QUOTE">"web-bugs"</span> and HTML
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annoyances, etc.)</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Modularized configuration that allows for standard settings and
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user settings to reside in separate files, so that installing
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updated actions files won't overwrite individual user settings.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the
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configuration files, and a more sophisticated and flexible
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configuration syntax.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>GIF de-animation.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script
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redirection).</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>User-customizable HTML templates for most proxy-generated pages
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(e.g. "blocked" page).</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Most features are controllable on a per-site or per-location
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basis.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Many smaller new features added, limitations and bugs
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removed.</p>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a name="WHATSANAD" id="WHATSANAD">1.8. How does
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Privoxy know what is an ad, and what is not?</a></h3>
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<p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s approach to blocking ads
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is twofold:</p>
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<p>First, there are certain patterns in the <span class=
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"emphasis EMPHASIS c2">locations</span> (URLs) of banner images. This
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applies to both the path (you wouldn't guess how many web sites serve
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their banners from a directory called <span class=
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"QUOTE">"banners"</span>!) and the host (blocking the big banner
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hosting services like doublecklick.net already helps a lot).
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<span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> takes advantage of this fact
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by using <a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html#AF-PATTERNS" target=
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"_top">URL patterns</a> to sort out and block the requests for things
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that sound like they would be ads or banners.</p>
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<p>Second, banners tend to come in certain <span class=
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"emphasis EMPHASIS c2">sizes</span>. But you can't tell the size of an
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image by its URL without downloading it, and if you do, it's too late
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to save bandwidth. Therefore, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
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also inspects the HTML sources of web pages while they are loaded, and
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replaces references to images with standard banner sizes by dummy
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references, so that your browser doesn't request them anymore in the
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first place.</p>
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<p>Both of this involves a certain amount of guesswork and is, of
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course, freely and readily configurable.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN163" id="AEN163">1.9. Can Privoxy make
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mistakes? This does not sound very scientific.</a></h3>
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<p>Actually, it's a black art ;-) And yes, it is always possible to
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have a broad rule accidentally block or change something by mistake.
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You will almost surely run into such situations at some point. It is
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tricky writing rules to cover every conceivable possibility, and not
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occasionally get false positives.</p>
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<p>But this should not be a big concern since the <span class=
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"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> configuration is very flexible, and
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includes tools to help identify these types of situations so they can
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be addressed as needed, allowing you to customize your installation.
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(<a href="trouble.html#BADSITE">See the Troubleshooting section
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below</a>.)</p>
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</div>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN169" id="AEN169">1.10. Will I have to
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configure Privoxy before I can use it?</a></h3>
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<p>That depends on your expectations. The default installation should
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give you a good starting point, and block <span class=
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"emphasis EMPHASIS c2">most</span> ads and unwanted content, but many
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of the more advanced features are off by default, and require you to
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activate them.</p>
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<p>You do have to set up your browser to use <span class=
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"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> (see the <a href=
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"installation.html#FIRSTSTEP">Installation section below</a>).</p>
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<p>And you will certainly run into situations where there are false
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positives, or ads not being blocked that you may not want to see. In
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these cases, you would certainly benefit by customizing <span class=
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"APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> configuration to more closely match your
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individual situation. And we encourage you to do this. This is where
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the real power of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> lies!</p>
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</div>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a name="LAN" id="LAN">1.11. Can Privoxy run as a
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server on a network?</a></h3>
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<p>Yes, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> runs as a server
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already, and can easily be configured to <span class=
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"QUOTE">"serve"</span> more than one client. See <a href=
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"configuration.html#LANCONFIG">How can I set up Privoxy to act as a
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proxy for my LAN</a> below.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a name="BROWSERS2" id="BROWSERS2">1.12. My browser
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does the same things as Privoxy. Why should I use Privoxy at
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all?</a></h3>
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<p>Modern browsers do indeed have <span class=
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"emphasis EMPHASIS c2">some</span> of the same functionality as
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<span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. Maybe this is adequate for
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you. But <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is very versatile and
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powerful, and can probably do a number of things your browser just
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can't.</p>
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<p>In addition, a proxy is good choice if you use multiple browsers, or
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have a LAN with multiple computers since <span class=
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"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can run as a server application. This way
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all the configuration is in one place, and you don't have to maintain a
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similar configuration for possibly many browsers or users.</p>
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<p>Note, however, that it's recommended to leverage both your browser's
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and <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> privacy enhancing
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features at the same time. While your browser probably lacks some
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features <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> offers, it should
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also be able to do some things more reliable, for example restricting
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and suppressing JavaScript.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a name="WHYTRUST" id="WHYTRUST">1.13. Why should I
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trust Privoxy?</a></h3>
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<p>The most important reason is because you have access to <span class=
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"emphasis EMPHASIS c2">everything</span>, and you can control
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everything. You can check every line of every configuration file
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yourself. You can check every last bit of source code should you
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desire. And even if you can't read code, there should be some comfort
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in knowing that other people can, and do read it. You can build the
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software from scratch, if you want, so that you know the executable is
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clean, and that it is <span class="emphasis EMPHASIS c2">yours</span>.
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In fact, we encourage this level of scrutiny. It is one reason we use
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<span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> ourselves.</p>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a name="LICENSE" id="LICENSE">1.14. Is there is a
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license or fee? What about a warranty? Registration?</a></h3>
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<p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is free software and
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licensed under the <a href=
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"http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
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"_top">GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2</a>. It is free to
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use, copy, modify or distribute as you wish under the terms of this
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license. Please see the <a href="copyright.html">Copyright</a> section
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for more information on the license and copyright. Or the <tt class=
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"FILENAME">LICENSE</tt> file that should be included.</p>
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<p>There is <span class="emphasis EMPHASIS c2">no warranty</span> of
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any kind, expressed, implied or otherwise. That is something that would
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cost real money ;-) There is no registration either.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a name="SPYWARE" id="SPYWARE">1.15. Can Privoxy
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remove spyware? Adware? Viruses?</a></h3>
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<p>No, at least not reliably enough to trust it. <span class=
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"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is not designed to be a malware removal
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tool and the default configuration doesn't even try to filter out any
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malware.</p>
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<p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> could help prevent contact
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from (known) sites that use such tactics with appropriate configuration
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rules, and thus could conceivably prevent contamination from such
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sites. However, keeping such a configuration up to date would require a
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lot of time and effort that would be better spend on keeping your
|
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software itself up to date so it doesn't have known
|
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vulnerabilities.</p>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a name="OTHERADS" id="OTHERADS">1.16. Can I use
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Privoxy with other ad-blocking software?</a></h3>
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<p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> should work fine with other
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proxies and other software in general.</p>
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<p>But it is probably not necessary to use <span class=
|
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"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> in conjunction with other ad-blocking
|
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products, and this could conceivably cause undesirable results. It
|
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might be better to choose one software or the other and work a little
|
|
to tweak its configuration to your liking.</p>
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|
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<p>Note that this is an advice specific to ad blocking.</p>
|
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</div>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a name="HELP-THE-DEVELOPERS" id=
|
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"HELP-THE-DEVELOPERS">1.17. I would like to help you, what can I
|
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do?</a></h3>
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<div class="SECT3">
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<h4 class="SECT3"><a name="PARTICIPATE" id="PARTICIPATE">1.17.1.
|
|
Would you like to participate?</a></h4>
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<p>Well, we <span class="emphasis EMPHASIS c2">always</span> need
|
|
help. There is something for everybody who wants to help us. We
|
|
welcome new developers, packagers, testers, documentation writers or
|
|
really anyone with a desire to help in any way. You <span class=
|
|
"emphasis EMPHASIS c2">DO NOT</span> need to be a <span class=
|
|
"QUOTE">"programmer"</span>. There are many other tasks available. In
|
|
fact, the programmers often can't spend as much time programming
|
|
because of some of the other, more mundane things that need to be
|
|
done, like checking the Tracker feedback sections or responding to
|
|
user questions on the mailing lists.</p>
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|
|
<p>So first thing, subscribe to the <a href=
|
|
"https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ijbswa-users" target=
|
|
"_top">Privoxy Users</a> or the <a href=
|
|
"https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ijbswa-developers"
|
|
target="_top">Privoxy Developers</a> mailing list, join the
|
|
discussion, help out other users, provide general feedback or report
|
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problems you noticed.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>If you intend to help out with the trackers, you also might want
|
|
to <a href="https://sourceforge.net/account/register.php" target=
|
|
"_top">get an account on SourceForge.net</a> so we don't confuse you
|
|
with the other name-less users.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>We also have a <a href="../developer-manual/index.html" target=
|
|
"_top">Developer's Manual</a>. While it is partly out of date, it's
|
|
still worth reading.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Our <a href=
|
|
"http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/current/TODO?view=markup"
|
|
target="_top">TODO list</a> may be of interest to you as well. Please
|
|
let us know if you want to work on one of the items listed.</p>
|
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</div>
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|
|
<div class="SECT3">
|
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<h4 class="SECT3"><a name="DONATE" id="DONATE">1.17.2. Would you like
|
|
to donate?</a></h4>
|
|
|
|
<p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is developed by unpaid
|
|
volunteers and thus our current running costs are pretty low.
|
|
Nevertheless, we have plans that will cost money in the future. They
|
|
include, but aren't limited to spending money on:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p>Hardware to help make sure <span class=
|
|
"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> keeps running on platforms the
|
|
developers currently can't test on and can be ported to
|
|
others.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p>Technical books to educate our developers about said platforms
|
|
or to improve their knowledge in general.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p>More reliable hosting,</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>We would like to get this money through donations made by our
|
|
users.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has therefore become an
|
|
associated project of <a href=
|
|
"http://www.spi-inc.org/about-spi/about-spi" target="_top">Software
|
|
in the Public Interest (SPI)</a>, which allows us to receive
|
|
donations. In the United States they are tax-deductible, in a few
|
|
other western countries they might be tax-deductible in the
|
|
future.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>If you read this section before you may notice that paying for the
|
|
project domain privoxy.org is no longer on the list. It has been
|
|
transferred to SPI is sponsored by Mythic Beasts Ltd.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>If you enjoy our software and feel like helping out with a
|
|
donation, please have a look at <a href=
|
|
"http://www.spi-inc.org/donations" target="_top">SPI's donation
|
|
page</a> to see what the options are. If you have any questions
|
|
regarding donations please mail to either the public user mailing
|
|
list or, if it's a private matter, to <a href=
|
|
"mailto:fk@fabiankeil.de" target="_top">Fabian Keil</a> (Privoxy's
|
|
SPI liason) directly.</p>
|
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