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[privoxy.git] / doc / source / faq.sgml

diff --git a/doc/source/faq.sgml b/doc/source/faq.sgml
index 7079c50..151f466 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/source/faq.sgml
+++ b/doc/source/faq.sgml
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@
 <!entity history SYSTEM "history.sgml">
 <!entity copyright SYSTEM "copyright.sgml">
 <!entity license SYSTEM "license.sgml">
-<!entity p-version "3.0.13">
-<!entity p-status "beta">
-<!entity % p-not-stable "INCLUDE">
-<!entity % p-stable "IGNORE">
+<!entity p-version "3.0.17">
+<!entity p-status "stable">
+<!entity % p-not-stable "IGNORE">
+<!entity % p-stable "INCLUDE">
 <!entity % p-text "IGNORE">        <!-- define we are not a text only doc -->
 <!entity % p-doc "INCLUDE">        <!-- and we are a formal doc           -->
 <!entity % p-supp-userman "INCLUDE"> <!-- Include all from supported.sgml -->
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
                 This file belongs into
                 ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/i/ij/ijbswa/htdocs/
                 
- $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.61 2009/06/12 11:52:33 fabiankeil Exp $
+ $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.72 2010/02/27 12:13:17 fabiankeil Exp $
 
  Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
  See LICENSE.
@@ -73,12 +73,12 @@
  <subscript>
 <!-- Completely the wrong markup, but very little is allowed  -->
 <!-- in this part of an article. FIXME -->
- <link linkend="copyright">Copyright</link> &my-copy; 2001-2009 by 
+ <link linkend="copyright">Copyright</link> &my-copy; 2001-2010 by
  <ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy Developers</ulink>
  </subscript>
 </pubdate>
 
-<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.61 2009/06/12 11:52:33 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.72 2010/02/27 12:13:17 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
 
 <!--
 
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ warranty? Registration?</title>
  please have a look at
  <ulink url="http://www.spi-inc.org/donations">SPI's donation page</ulink>
  to see what the options are.
-<para>
+</para>
 </sect3>
 
 </sect2>
@@ -808,23 +808,8 @@ way to do this?</title>
 <title>There are several different <quote>actions</quote> files. What are
 the differences?</title>
 <para>
- Three actions files 
- are being included by the developers, to be used for 
- different purposes: These are 
- <filename>default.action</filename>, the <quote>main</quote> actions file
- which is actively maintained by the <application>Privoxy</application>
- developers and typically sets the default policies, <filename>user.action</filename>,
- where users are encouraged to make their private customizations.
- Please see <ulink url="../user-manual/actions-file.html">the actions chapter</ulink>
- in the <ulink url="../user-manual/index.html">User Manual</ulink> for a more
- detailed explanation.
-</para>
-
-<para>
- Earlier versions included three different versions of the 
- <filename>default.action</filename> file. The new scheme allows for 
- greater flexibility of local configuration, and for browser based 
- selection of pre-defined <quote>aggressiveness</quote> levels.
+ Please have a look at the <ulink url="../user-manual/actions-file.html">the actions chapter</ulink>
+ in the <ulink url="../user-manual/index.html">User Manual</ulink> for a detailed explanation.
 </para>
 
 </sect2>
@@ -993,7 +978,7 @@ with a browser? Does that not raise security issues?</title>
  <ulink
  url="../user-manual/actions-file.html#FILTER"><literal>filter</literal>
  action</ulink> in one of the actions files. Content filtering is automatically
- disabled for inappropriate MIME types, but if you now better than Privoxy
+ disabled for inappropriate MIME types, but if you know better than Privoxy
  what should or should not be filtered you can filter any content you like.
 </para>
 <para>
@@ -1778,8 +1763,10 @@ us help you. Your efforts are not wasted, and we do appreciate them.
  are working, it is time to connect them. As far as <application>Privoxy</application>
  is concerned, <application>Tor</application> is just another proxy that can be reached
  by socks4 or socks4a. Most likely you are interested in <application>Tor</application>
- to increase your anonymity level, therefore you should use socks4a, to make sure DNS requests are
- done through <application>Tor</application> and thus invisible to your local network.
+ to increase your anonymity level, therefore you should use socks5, to make sure DNS
+ requests are done through <application>Tor</application> and thus invisible to your
+ local network. Using socks4a would work too, but with socks5 you get more precise error
+ messages.
 </para>
 
 <![%p-newstuff;[
@@ -2209,6 +2196,42 @@ and related issues?</title>
 </para>
 </sect2>
 
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="surprise-privoxy">
+<title>How did you manage to get Privoxy on my computer without my consent?</title>
+
+<para>
+ 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.
+</para>
+<para>
+ 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.
+</para>
+<para>
+ Privoxy's <link linkend="copyright">license</link> 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.
+</para>
+<para>
+ 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.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
 
 </sect1>
 
@@ -2945,6 +2968,42 @@ browsing has slowed to a crawl. What gives? </title>
  51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
 
 $Log: faq.sgml,v $
+Revision 2.72  2010/02/27 12:13:17  fabiankeil
+Fix spelling.
+
+Revision 2.71  2010/02/27 12:12:13  fabiankeil
+Consistently recommending socks5 in the Tor entry and mention its advantage compared to socks4a.
+Reported by David in #2960129.
+
+Revision 2.70  2010/02/20 18:08:31  ler762
+fix typo
+
+Revision 2.69  2010/02/13 17:38:27  fabiankeil
+Update entities for 3.0.16 stable.
+
+Revision 2.68  2010/01/30 19:51:28  fabiankeil
+New FAQ entry: How did you manage to get Privoxy on my computer without my consent?
+
+Also bump copyright.
+
+Revision 2.67  2009/11/15 14:24:12  fabiankeil
+Prepare to generate docs for 3.0.16 UNRELEASED.
+
+Revision 2.66  2009/10/10 05:48:55  fabiankeil
+Prepare for 3.0.15 beta.
+
+Revision 2.65  2009/07/18 16:24:39  fabiankeil
+Bump entities for 3.0.14 beta.
+
+Revision 2.64  2009/07/18 12:18:52  fabiankeil
+Don't describe the action files in the FAQ when we can simply link to the description in the User Manual.
+
+Revision 2.63  2009/06/15 15:08:03  fabiankeil
+Patch #2806626 from Frédéric Crozat to fix a closing tag.
+
+Revision 2.62  2009/06/12 14:30:58  fabiankeil
+Update entities for 3.0.13 beta.
+
 Revision 2.61  2009/06/12 11:52:33  fabiankeil
 Mention the TODO list in the participate entry.