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@@ -8,15 +8,16 @@
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- Copyright &my-copy; 2001-2007 by
+ Copyright &my-copy; 2001-2010 by
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-$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.35 2007/11/19 17:57:59 fabiankeil Exp $
+$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.68 2010/01/30 19:51:28 fabiankeil Exp $
@@ -1285,7 +1301,7 @@ and thus avoid individual browser configuration?
method that browsers can use to store data between pages, or between browser
sessions. Sometimes there is a good reason for this, and the user's life is a
bit easier as a result. But there is a long history of some websites taking
- advantage of this layer of trust, and using the data they glean from you and
+ advantage of this layer of trust, and using the data they glean from you and
your browsing habits for their own purposes, and maybe to your potential
detriment. Such sites are using you and storing their data on your system.
That is why the privacy conscious watch from whom those cookies come, and why
@@ -1657,7 +1673,7 @@ us help you. Your efforts are not wasted, and we do appreciate them.
If you want to hide your IP address from most adversaries,
you should consider chaining Privoxy
- with Tor.
+ with Tor.
The configuration details can be found in
How do I use Privoxy together
with Tor section
@@ -1676,7 +1692,7 @@ us help you. Your efforts are not wasted, and we do appreciate them.
Privoxy can remove various information about you,
- and allows you more freedom to decide which sites
+ and allows you more freedom to decide which sites
you can trust, and what details you want to reveal. But it neither
hides your IP address, nor can it guarantee that the rest of the system
behaves correctly. There are several possibilities how a web sites can find
@@ -1763,7 +1779,7 @@ us help you. Your efforts are not wasted, and we do appreciate them.
-# forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
+# forward-socks5 / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
@@ -1802,7 +1818,7 @@ us help you. Your efforts are not wasted, and we do appreciate them.
in your browser, confirm that Privoxy has reloaded its configuration
and that there are no other forward lines, unless you know that you need them. If everything looks good,
refer to
- Tor
+ Tor
Faq 4.2 to learn how to verify that you are really using Tor.
@@ -2096,7 +2112,7 @@ from a webserver? FTP server?
Privoxy does not do FTP at all, only HTTP
- and HTTPS (SSL) protocols, so please don't try.
+ and HTTPS (SSL) protocols.
@@ -2162,7 +2178,7 @@ and related issues?
activated the fun filter which
is clearly labeled Text replacements for subversive browsing
fun! or you are using an older Privoxy version and have implicitly
- activated it by choosing the Adventuresome profile in the
+ activated it by choosing the Advanced profile in the
web-based editor. Please upgrade.
@@ -2178,6 +2194,42 @@ and related issues?
+
+How did you manage to get Privoxy on my computer without my consent?
+
+
+ We didn't. We make Privoxy available for download, but we don't go
+ around installing it on other people's systems behind their back.
+ If you discover Privoxy running on your system and are sure you didn't
+ install it yourself, somebody else did. You may not even be running
+ the real Privoxy, but maybe something else that only pretends to be
+ Privoxy, or maybe something that is based on the real Privoxy,
+ but has been modified.
+
+
+ Lately there have been reports of problems with some kind of
+ Privoxy versions that come preinstalled on some Netbooks.
+ Some of the problems described are inconsistent with the behaviour
+ of official Privoxy versions, which suggests that the preinstalled
+ software may contain vendor modifications that we don't know about
+ and thus can't debug.
+
+
+ Privoxy's license allows vendor
+ modifications, but the vendor has to comply with the license,
+ which involves informing the user about the changes and to make
+ the changes available under the same license as Privoxy itself.
+
+
+ If you are having trouble with a modified Privoxy version,
+ please try to talk to whoever made the modifications before
+ reporting the problem to us. Please also try to convince
+ whoever made the modifications to talk to us. If you think
+ somebody gave you a modified Privoxy version without complying
+ to the license, please let us know.
+
+
+
@@ -2462,8 +2514,8 @@ every time I start IE. What gives?
-
-In Mac OSX, I can't configure Microsoft Internet Explorer to use
+
+In Mac OS X, I can't configure Microsoft Internet Explorer to use
Privoxy as the HTTP proxy.
Microsoft Internet Explorer (in versions like 5.1) respects system-wide
@@ -2477,16 +2529,19 @@ every time I start IE. What gives?
-
-In Mac OSX, I dragged the Privoxy folder to the trash in order to
- uninstall it. Now the finder tells me I don't have sufficient privileges to
+
+In Mac OS X, I dragged the Privoxy folder to the trash in order to
+ uninstall it. Now the finder tells me I don't have sufficient privileges to
empty the trash.
+
+ Note: This ONLY applies to privoxy 3.0.6 and earlier.
+
Just dragging the Privoxy folder to the trash is
- not enough to delete it. Privoxy supplies an
+ not enough to delete it. Privoxy supplies an
uninstall.command file that takes care of
- these details. Open the trash, drag the uninstall.command
- file out of the trash and double-click on it. You will be prompted for
+ these details. Open the trash, drag the uninstall.command
+ file out of the trash and double-click on it. You will be prompted for
confirmation and the administration password.
@@ -2497,12 +2552,12 @@ every time I start IE. What gives?
-
-In Mac OSX Panther (10.3), images often fail to load and/or I
+
+In Mac OS X Panther (10.3), images often fail to load and/or I
experience random delays in page loading. I'm using
localhost as my browser's proxy setting.
- We believe this is due to an IPv6-related bug in OSX, but don't fully
+ We believe this is due to an IPv6-related bug in Mac OS X, but don't fully
understand the issue yet. In any case, changing the proxy setting to
127.0.0.1 instead of localhost
works around the problem.
@@ -2510,6 +2565,7 @@ every time I start IE. What gives?
+
I get a completely blank page at one site. View Source
shows only: