-Privoxy is a non-caching -web proxy -with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, -modifying web page data, managing HTTP -cookies, -controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious -Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be -customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for -both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks. +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 based on Internet Junkbuster (tm). +Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GPL2. +
+ +Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI). +Donations are welcome.
- -For Firefox, go through: Tools; +HTTP proxy in Firefox, go through: Tools; Options; General; Connection Settings; Manual Proxy Configuration. @@ -122,12 +116,12 @@ For other browsers, check the documentation. Privoxy can be configured with the various configuration files. The default configuration files are: config, -default.filter, and +default.filter, default.action and default.action. user.action should -be used for locally defined exceptions to the default rules of -default.action, and user.filter for -locally defined filters. These are well commented. On Unix -and Unix-like systems, these are located in +be used for locally defined exceptions to the default rules in +match-all.action and default.action, +and user.filter for locally defined filters. These are +well commented. On Unix and Unix-like systems, these are located in /etc/privoxy/ by default.
@@ -152,112 +146,6 @@ See the User Manual for a detailed explanation of installation, general usage, all configuration options, new features and notes on upgrading. -
- -A brief example of what a simple default.action -configuration might look like: -
-
- # Define a few useful custom aliases for later use
- {{alias}}
-
- # Useful aliases that combine more than one action
- +crunch-cookies = +crunch-incoming-cookies +crunch-outgoing-cookies
- -crunch-cookies = -crunch-incoming-cookies -crunch-outgoing-cookies
- +block-as-image = +block +handle-as-image
-
- # Fragile sites should have the minimum changes
- fragile = -block -deanimate-gifs -fast-redirects -filter \
- -hide-referer -prevent-cookies
-
- ## Turn some actions on ################################
- ## NOTE: Actions are off by default, unless explictily turned on
- ## otherwise with the '+' operator.
-
-{ \
-+deanimate-gifs{last} \
-+filter{refresh-tags} \
-+filter{img-reorder} \
-+filter{banners-by-size} \
-+filter{webbugs} \
-+filter{jumping-windows} \
-+filter{ie-exploits} \
-+hide-forwarded-for-headers \
-+hide-from-header{block} \
-+hide-referrer{conditional-block} \
-+session-cookies-only \
-+set-image-blocker{pattern} \
-}
-/ # '/' Match *all* URL patterns
-
-
- # Block all URLs that match these patterns
- { +block }
- ad.
- ad[sv].
- .*ads.
- banner?.
- /.*count(er)?\.(pl|cgi|exe|dll|asp|php[34]?)
- .hitbox.com
- media./.*(ads|banner)
-
- # Block, and treat these URL patterns as if they were 'images'.
- # We would expect these to be ads.
- { +block-as-image }
- .ad.doubleclick.net
- .a[0-9].yimg.com/(?:(?!/i/).)*$
- ad.*.doubleclick.net
-
- # Make exceptions for these harmless ones that would be
- # caught by our +block patterns just above.
- { -block }
- adsl.
- adobe.
- advice.
- .*downloads.
- # uploads or downloads
- /.*loads
-
-
-- -Then for a user.action, we would put local, -narrowly defined exceptions: -
-
- # Re-define aliases as needed here
- {{alias}}
-
- # Useful aliases
- -crunch-cookies = -crunch-incoming-cookies -crunch-outgoing-cookies
-
- # Set personal exceptions to the policies in default.action #######
-
- # Sites where we want persistent cookies, so allow *all* cookies
- { -crunch-cookies -session-cookies-only }
- .redhat.com
- .sun.com
- .msdn.microsoft.com
-
- # These sites break easily. Use our "fragile" alias here.
- { fragile }
- .forbes.com
- mybank.example.com
-
- # Replace example.com's style sheet with one of my choosing
- { +redirect{http://localhost/css-replacements/example.com.css} }
- .example.com/stylesheet.css
-
-
-- -See the comments in the configuration files themselves, or the -User Manual -for full explanations of the above syntax, and other Privoxy -configuration options. -
@@ -265,8 +153,8 @@ configuration options. /usr/sbin/privoxy /etc/privoxy/config + /etc/privoxy/match-all.action /etc/privoxy/default.action - /etc/privoxy/standard.action /etc/privoxy/user.action /etc/privoxy/default.filter /etc/privoxy/user.filter @@ -280,7 +168,7 @@ configuration options. Various other files should be included, but may vary depending on platform and build configuration. Additional documentation should be included in the local documentation directory. - +
@@ -292,14 +180,18 @@ rotation scripts may cause a re-opening of the logfile by sending a other daemons, Privoxy does not need to be made aware of config file changes by SIGHUP -- it will detect them automatically. - +
+This is a beta version of Privoxy. Not +all features are well tested. +
+ Please see the User Manual on how to contact the developers, for feature requests, reporting problems, and other questions. - +
@@ -315,7 +207,10 @@ the Privoxy Home page. http://www.privoxy.org/faq/, the Privoxy FAQ.
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/, +http://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/, +the Privoxy developer manual. +
+https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/, the Project Page for Privoxy on SourceForge.
@@ -323,63 +218,38 @@ SourceForge. the web-based user interface. Privoxy must be running for this to work. Shortcut: http://p.p/
-http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288, to submit ``misses'' and other +https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288, to submit ``misses'' and other configuration related suggestions to the developers. -
-http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/cookies.html, -an explanation how cookies are used to track web users. -
-http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html, -the original Internet Junkbuster. -
-http://privacy.net/, a useful site -to check what information about you is leaked while you browse the web. -
-http://www.squid-cache.org/, a popular -caching proxy, which is often used together with Privoxy. -
-http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/, -Polipo is a caching proxy with advanced features -like pipelining, multiplexing and caching of partial instances. In many setups -it can be used as Squid replacement. -
-http://tor.eff.org/, -Tor can help anonymize web browsing, -web publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications. -
-http://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/, -the Privoxy developer manual. - +
Fabian Keil, lead developer David Schmidt, developer - + Hal Burgiss Mark Miller Gerry Murphy Lee Rian Roland Rosenfeld - Jörg Strohmayer- +
-Copyright (C) 2001-2008 by Privoxy Developers <ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> +Copyright (C) 2001-2009 by Privoxy Developers <ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
Some source code is based on code Copyright (C) 1997 by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the GNU General Public License. - +
@@ -411,22 +281,21 @@ USA