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Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.

Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.

Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.

Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI).

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How to see which URLs are blocked by Privoxy

I want to see a log of which URLs are blocked by Privoxy, but I cannot find this anywhere. Relevant lines in my configuration file (/usr/local/var/log/privoxy/logfile) are as follows: confdir /usr/local/etc/privoxy logdir…
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Privoxy: blocking twitter, facebook and google outside of their domainslr

Related subject: blocking facebook.com outside facebook.com domain This is from default.filter ################################################################################# # # shockwave-flash: Kill embedded Shockwave Flash objects. # …
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How to whitelist a url/site in privoxy?

I'm using Fedora 14 with privoxy-3.0.16-3.fc14.i686! These sites are blocked by Privoxy: http://somewhere.com/user/11111/track?page=1 http://www.somewhere2.org/popup.asp?pid=114645006&pnr=10001&foto=1 How can I whitelist these two sites/urls? I…
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How to block the Google Analytics Script using Privoxy

Related subject: Privoxy: blocking twitter, facebook and google outside of their domainslr Never mind what rule I am adding to the default.filter file, I don't make it to block these scripts.
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Changing privoxy configuration depending on time

I'm trying to use privoxy for parental control. What I want is blocking sites (blacklisting) depending on what time it currently is. I.e. No youtube videos from 5:00 am to 8:00 am. As far as I've seen, the privoxy configuration doesn't allow this…
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Privoxy redirect rule for Wikipedia

I have a few Privoxy rules, that can redirect HTTP Wikipedia [en,de] traffic to HTTPS: (a little part from the "user.action" file) { +redirect{s@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/@https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/@} } .en.wikipedia.org {…
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privoxy or any proxy server on Linux forward requests to multiple different proxy servers

I'm a stack exchange Virgin. Is it possible to forward data to the parent proxy based on the listen-address port in was recieved For example my firefox browser is set to use proxy 90.91.92.93:8118 And proxy 90.91.92.93 then forwars to proxy…
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Privoxy/VPN/remote proxy

On Privoxy, my current config involves this. (forwarding all requests to netshade proxy): forward / nl1.netshade.net:350 Now, I would like to use a VPN on top of this config while keeping my current forwarding. If my understanding is…
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iptables redirect FORWARD http traffic to privorxy port

Ideally i m trying to use my laptop and a 3Gphone as a WiFi router to redirect FORWARD HTTP but not HTTPS Traffic to privoxy which then forwards the traffic via a SSH tunnel to a ziproxy VPS. for the sake of simplicity privoxy is currently set to…
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privoxy unable to take any additional connections

I run a public proxy and I've got about 400 clients, but when I check the logfile: /var/etc/privoxy/logfile I get lots of: unable to take any additional connections. In /etc/privoxy/config I have set max-client connections to 100000000000000 and…
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How much do I stand to gain if I run a caching proxy server when most sites are using HTTPS

I have been running squid to cache content along with privoxy to remove lower quality content for years; however, as more and more sites use HTTPS, the amount I can effectively cache or filter is greatly reduced. Having an extra service running…
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Privoxy isn't saving to logfile

After installing privoxy I started it up and, after directing my browser to run through it as a proxy, I was presented with an error saying the following "There is no Internet connection There is something wrong with the proxy server, or the…
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Connect VPN through privoxy

I'm going to configure anonymous connection to internet following below schema: ISP -> Privoxy (chained with TOR) -> OpenVPN network (for e.g. VPNGate) -> internet I want to gain higher anonymity. I configured following .ovpn client…
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Privoxy - Annoying Error Used IPTables

I'm running privoxy off a machine that also has hostapd installed, I am trying to run all http traffic from hostapd through privoxy i have already tried this: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8118 but it gives…
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Privoxy redirect blacklist sites to whitelist site

For my application, I need a WiFi hotspot that has the entire internet blocked except for one website. I am thinking about using a Raspberry Pi configured as a WiFi hotspot and using Privoxy. Privoxy has the capability to whitelist and blacklist…
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