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@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@
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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
Purpose : FAQ
- Copyright (C) 2001-2020 Privoxy Developers https://www.privoxy.org/
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2021 Privoxy Developers https://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
Based partially on the Internet Junkbuster FAQ originally written by and
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
- Copyright &my-copy; 2001-2020 by
+ Copyright &my-copy; 2001-2021 by
Privoxy Developers
@@ -554,7 +554,10 @@ warranty? Registration?
The logo sizes depend on the sponsor level. Logos are served from
our server, no requests are made to the sponsor website unless
- the links are being used.
+ the links are being used. Note that Privoxy comes with a
+ hide-referrer
+ action so Privoxy users following links to sponsor websites
+ may not necessarily send requests with a Referer header set.
Link targets are without path (https://www.example.org/
@@ -564,11 +567,17 @@ warranty? Registration?
The details may change over time but changes will only affect new sponsors
(or existing sponsors that explicitly agreed to the changes).
+
+ Thanks to Software in the Public Interest (SPI)
+ Privoxy sponsors can get a proper invoice.
+
If you want to become a sponsor, please contact
Fabian Keil
and include the link target in the mail.
- New sponsors are only accepted if no developer objects.
+ New sponsors are only accepted if no
+ Privoxy team
+ member objects.
@@ -917,11 +926,13 @@ the differences?
url="../user-manual/actions-file.html#ALIASES">alias just for such
sticky situations:
- # Gmail is a _fragile_ site:
+
+# Gmail is a _fragile_ site:
#
{ fragile }
- # Gmail is ...
- mail.google.com
+# Gmail is ...
+mail.google.com
+
Be sure to flush your browser's caches whenever making these kinds of
changes, just to make sure the changes take.
@@ -1073,7 +1084,7 @@ with a browser? Does that not raise security issues?
- listen-address 192.168.1.1:8118
+listen-address 192.168.1.1:8118
Save the file, and restart Privoxy. Configure
@@ -1086,7 +1097,7 @@ with a browser? Does that not raise security issues?
- listen-address :8118
+listen-address :8118
And then use Privoxy's
@@ -1223,7 +1234,7 @@ and thus avoid individual browser configuration?
The whole idea of Privoxy is to modify client requests
and server responses in all sorts of ways and therefore
it's not a transparent proxy as described in
- RFC 2616.
+ RFC 2616.
However, some people say transparent proxy when they
@@ -1356,8 +1367,9 @@ and thus avoid individual browser configuration?
both in and out, for example.com:
- { -crunch-incoming-cookies -crunch-outgoing-cookies -session-cookies-only -filter{content-cookies} }
- .example.com
+{ -crunch-incoming-cookies -crunch-outgoing-cookies -session-cookies-only -filter{content-cookies} }
+.example.com
+
Place the above in user.action. Note that some of these may
be off by default anyway, so this might be redundant, but there is no harm
@@ -1393,19 +1405,20 @@ and thus avoid individual browser configuration?
Here's one real easy one:
- ############################################################
- # Blacklist
- ############################################################
- { +block }
- / # Block *all* URLs
-
- ############################################################
- # Whitelist
- ############################################################
- { -block }
- kids.example.com
- toys.example.com
- games.example.com
+############################################################
+# Blacklist
+############################################################
+{ +block }
+/ # Block *all* URLs
+
+############################################################
+# Whitelist
+############################################################
+{ -block }
+kids.example.com
+toys.example.com
+games.example.com
+
This allows access to only those three sites by first blocking all URLs, and
then subsequently allowing three specific exceptions.
@@ -1449,20 +1462,22 @@ and thus avoid individual browser configuration?
following very simple rule in your user.action:
- # Unblock everybody, everywhere
- { -block }
- / # UN-Block *all* URLs
+# Unblock everybody, everywhere
+{ -block }
+/ # UN-Block *all* URLs
+
Or even a more comprehensive reversing of various ad related actions:
- # Unblock everybody, everywhere, and turn off appropriate filtering, etc
- { -block \
+# Unblock everybody, everywhere, and turn off appropriate filtering, etc
+{ -block \
-filter{banners-by-size} \
-filter{banners-by-link} \
allow-popups \
- }
- / # UN-Block *all* URLs and allow ads
+}
+/ # UN-Block *all* URLs and allow ads
+
This last action in this compound statement,
allow-popups, is an BLOCKED page?
available as compile-time options. You should
configure the sources as follows:
-
- ./configure --disable-toggle --disable-editor --disable-force
+
+./configure --disable-toggle --disable-editor --disable-force
+
This will create an executable with hard-coded security features so that
&my-app; does not allow easy bypassing of blocked sites, or changing the
@@ -1915,7 +1931,7 @@ speed up web browsing?
No, it does not have this ability at all. You want something like
Squid or
- Polipo for this.
+ Polipo for this.
And, yes, before you ask, Privoxy can co-exist
with other kinds of proxies like Squid.
See the forwarding
@@ -2195,11 +2211,12 @@ altered it! Yikes, what is wrong!
configuration, consider adding your list to your user.action file:
- { +block }
- www.ad.example1.com
- ad.example2.com
- ads.galore.example.com
- etc.example.com
+{ +block }
+www.ad.example1.com
+ad.example2.com
+ads.galore.example.com
+etc.example.com
+
@@ -2986,7 +3003,7 @@ browsing has slowed to a crawl. What gives?
To prevent the crashes you can rewrite your filter to use less resources,
increase the relevant memory limit or recompile pcre to use less stack space.
For details please see the
- pcrestack man page
+ pcrestack man page
and the documentation of your operating system.