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- $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.87 2012/04/22 12:16:09 fabiankeil Exp $
+ $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.103 2014/10/21 12:02:16 fabiankeil Exp $
- Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2014 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
Based partially on the Internet Junkbuster FAQ originally written by and
<subscript>
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- <link linkend="copyright">Copyright</link> &my-copy; 2001-2011 by
+ <link linkend="copyright">Copyright</link> &my-copy; 2001-2014 by
<ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy Developers</ulink>
</subscript>
</pubdate>
-<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.87 2012/04/22 12:16:09 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.103 2014/10/21 12:02:16 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
<!--
<title id="whyprivoxy">Why <quote>Privoxy</quote>? Why change the name from
Junkbuster at all?</title>
<para>
- Though outdated, <ulink url="http://junkbusters.com/">Junkbusters Corporation</ulink>
- continues to offer their original version of the <application>Internet
- Junkbuster</application>, so publishing our
- <application> Junkbuster</application>-derived software under the same name
- led to confusion.
+ Though outdated, Junkbusters Corporation continued to offer their original
+ version of the <application>Internet Junkbuster</application> for a while,
+ so publishing our <application> Junkbuster</application>-derived software
+ under the same name would have led to confusion.
</para>
<para>
- There are also potential legal complications from our use of the
- <application>Junkbuster</application> name, which is a registered trademark of
- <ulink url="http://junkbusters.com/">Junkbusters Corporation</ulink>.
- There are, however, no objections from Junkbusters Corporation to the
- <application>Privoxy</application> project itself, and they, in fact, still
- share our ideals and goals.
+ There were also potential legal reasons not to use the
+ <application>Junkbuster</application> name, as it was (and maybe still is)
+ a registered trademark of Junkbusters Corporation.
+ There were, however, no objections from Junkbusters Corporation to the
+ <application>Privoxy</application> project itself, and they, in fact,
+ shared our ideals and goals.
</para>
<para>
- The developers also believed that there are so many improvements over the original
- code, that it was time to make a clean break from the past and make
- a name in their own right.
+ The Privoxy developers also believed that there were so many improvements
+ over the original code, that it was time to make a clean break from the past
+ and make a name in their own right.
</para>
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application> is the
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application> picks up where
<application>Junkbuster</application> left off.
-
The new <application>Privoxy</application> still blocks ads and banners,
+ <application>Privoxy</application> still blocks ads and banners,
still manages <ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie">cookies</ulink>, and still
helps protect your privacy. But, most of these features have been enhanced,
and <application>Privoxy's</application> privacy enhancing features
at the same time. While your browser probably lacks some features
&my-app; offers, it should also be able to do some things more
- reliable, for example restricting and suppressing JavaScript.
+ reliably, for example restricting and suppressing JavaScript.
</para>
</sect2>
</para>
<para>
If you intend to help out with the trackers, you also might want to <ulink
- url="https://sourceforge.net/account/register.php">get an account on SourceForge.net</ulink>
+ url="https://sourceforge.net/user/registration">get an account on SourceForge.net</ulink>
so we don't confuse you with the other name-less users.
</para>
<para>
<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="donate"><title>Would you like to donate?</title>
<para>
- <application>Privoxy</application> is developed by unpaid volunteers
- and thus our current running costs are pretty low. Nevertheless, we
- have plans that will cost money in the future. They include,
- but aren't limited to spending money on:
-
+ Donations are welcome. Our
+ <ulink url="http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/current/TODO">TODO list</ulink>
+ is rather long and being able to pay one (or more) developers to work on Privoxy
+ would make a huge difference, even if it was only for a couple of weeks. Donations may
+ also be used for Privoxy-related travel expenses (for example to attend conferences),
+ for hardware used for Privoxy development and for hosting expenses etc.
</para>
<para>
-<itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Hardware to help make sure <application>Privoxy</application>
- keeps running on platforms the developers currently can't test
- on and can be ported to others.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Technical books to educate our developers about said platforms
- or to improve their knowledge in general.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- More reliable hosting,
- </para>
- </listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
+ <application>Privoxy</application> is an associated
+ project of <ulink url="http://www.spi-inc.org/">Software
+ in the Public Interest (SPI)</ulink>, which allows us to receive
+ tax-deductible donations in the United States. If you want to donate through
+ SPI, please use <ulink url="http://www.spi-inc.org/donations">SPI's donation page</ulink>
+ to see what the options are.
</para>
<para>
- We would like to get this money through donations made by our users.
+ You can also donate to Privoxy using a bank account managed by
+ <ulink url="https://www.zwiebelfreunde.de/">Zwiebelfreunde e.V.</ulink>:
</para>
-
-<para>
- <application>Privoxy</application> has therefore become an associated
- project of <ulink url="http://www.spi-inc.org/about-spi/about-spi">Software
- in the Public Interest (SPI)</ulink>, which allows us to receive donations.
- In the United States they are tax-deductible, in a few other western countries
- they might be tax-deductible in the future.
-</para>
-
+<literallayout>
+ Name on Account: Zwiebelfreunde e.V.
+ IBAN: DE95430609671126825604
+ BIC: GENODEM1GLS
+ Bank: GLS Bank
+</literallayout>
<para>
- If you read this section before you may notice that paying for the
- project domain privoxy.org is no longer on the list. It has been
- transferred to SPI is sponsored by Mythic Beasts Ltd.
+ Donations made through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. are tax-deductible in Germany
+ and other countries that recognize German charitable clubs. Feel free to
+ use the Subject field to provide a name to be credited and a list of TODO
+ list items you are interested in the most. For example: Max Mustermann: #16, #1, #14.
</para>
<para>
- If you enjoy our software and feel like helping out with a donation,
- please have a look at
- <ulink url="http://www.spi-inc.org/donations">SPI's donation page</ulink>
- to see what the options are. If you have any questions regarding donations
- please mail to either the public user mailing list or, if it's a private
- matter, to <ulink url="mailto:fk@fabiankeil.de">Fabian Keil</ulink>
- (Privoxy's SPI liason) directly.
-</para>
+ If you have any questions regarding donations please mail to either the
+ public user mailing list or, if it's a private matter, to
+ <ulink url="mailto:fk@fabiankeil.de">Fabian Keil</ulink> (Privoxy's SPI liason)
+ directly.
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="difficult">
<title>Why is the configuration so complicated?</title>
<para>
- <quote>Complicated</quote> is in the eye of the beholder. Those that are
- familiar with some of the underlying concepts, such as regular expression
- syntax, take to it like a fish takes to water. Also, software that tries
- hard to be <quote>user friendly</quote>, often lacks sophistication and
- flexibility. There is always that trade-off there between power vs.
- easy-of-use. Furthermore, anyone is welcome to contribute ideas and
- implementations to enhance &my-app;.
+ <quote>Complicated</quote> is in the eye of the beholder.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Privoxy is currently mainly written by and for people who are already
+ familiar with the underlying concepts like regular expressions, HTTP and HTML,
+ or are willing to become familiar with them to be able to get the most
+ out of a powerful and flexible tool such as Privoxy.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ While everybody is expected to be able to get a Privoxy default installation
+ up and running, fine-tuning requires a certain amount of background
+ information and Privoxy's documentation mainly concentrates on the
+ Privoxy-specific parts while only providing references to the rest.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If you or anyone you know has the skills, time and energy to
+ reduce the barrier of entry, please <link linkend="participate">get involved</link>.
</para>
</sect2>
</para>
<para>
- Since <application>Privoxy</application> 3.0.5, its
+ <application>Privoxy's</application>
<ulink url="../user-manual/config.html">main configuration file</ulink>
is already prepared for <application>Tor</application>, if you are using a
default <application>Tor</application> configuration and run it on the same
</para>
<para>
<screen>
-# forward-socks5 / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
+# forward-socks5t / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
</screen>
</para>
<para>
</para>
</sect2>
-
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<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="macosximages">
<title>In Mac OS X Panther (10.3), images often fail to load and/or I
</para>
</sect2>
+<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="macosxaccountdeletion">
+<title>I just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and now &my-app; has stopped
+ working.</title>
+ <para>
+ The upgrade process to Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9) from an earlier version of OS
+ X deletes all user accounts that are either not part of OS X itself or are
+ not interactive user accounts (ones you log in with). Since, for the sake of
+ security, &my-app; runs as a non-privileged user that is created by its
+ installer (_privoxy), it can no longer start up once that account gets deleted.
+ The solution is to perform a complete uninstall using the supplied
+ <application>uninstall.command</application> script (either back up your
+ configuration files or select to not have the uninstaller remove them when it
+ prompts you) and then reinstall &my-app; using the installer package and merge
+ in your configuration.
+ </para>
+</sect2>
+
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
<!-- XXX: Is this still relevant now that we have gzip support? -->
<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="blankpage">
Pages with UTF-8 fonts are garbled.
</title>
<para>
- This is caused by the <quote>demoronizer</quote> filter. You should either
- upgrade <application>Privoxy</application>, or at least upgrade to the most
- recent <filename>default.action</filename> file available from <ulink
- url="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118">SourceForge</ulink>.
- Or you can simply disable the demoronizer filter.
+ This may be the result of an overly aggressive filter. The filters that
+ are enabled in the default configuration aren't expected to cause problems
+ like this. If you enabled the <quote>demoronizer</quote> filter, please
+ try temporarily disabling it.
+</para>
+<para>
+ If that doesn't help, temporarily disable all filters to see if another
+ filter could be the culprit. If the problem disappears, enable the filters
+ one by one, until the problem reappears and the offending filter is found.
+</para>
+<para>
+ Once the problem-causing filter is known, it can be fixed or disabled.
+</para>
+<para>
+ Upgrading <application>Privoxy</application>, or going to the most recent
+ <filename>default.action</filename> file available from <ulink
+ url="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118">SourceForge</ulink>
+ might be worth a try, too.
</para>
</sect2>
is used?
</title>
<para>
- This may also be caused by the <quote>demoronizer</quote> filter,
- in conjunction with a web server that is misreporting the content type. Binary
- files are exempted from <application>Privoxy's</application> filtering
- (unless the web server by mistake says the file is something else). Either
- upgrade <application>Privoxy</application>, or go to the most recent
- <filename>default.action</filename> file available from <ulink
- url="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118">SourceForge</ulink>.
+ This may also be caused by an (<link linkend="DEMORONIZER">overly aggressive
+ filter</link> in conjunction with a web server that is misreporting the content
+ type. By default binary files are exempted from
+ <application>Privoxy's</application> filtering
+ (unless the web server by mistake says the file is something else).
</para>
</sect2>
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+Revision 2.103 2014/10/21 12:02:16 fabiankeil
+Bump FAQ copyright
+
+Revision 2.102 2014/10/06 10:20:09 fabiankeil
+Update the 'Would you like to donate?' section
+
+Mention that donations will be used to get TODO list
+items done and add the Zwiebelfreunde e.V. bank
+account.
+
+Revision 2.101 2014/05/26 10:48:39 fabiankeil
+Bump entities for 3.0.22 UNRELEASED
+
+Revision 2.100 2014/05/05 09:59:30 fabiankeil
+Recommend forward-socks5t when using Tor
+
+It seems to work fine and modifying the Tor configuration
+to profit from it hasn't been necessary for a while now.
+
+Revision 2.99 2014/02/10 14:43:46 fabiankeil
+Make 'demoronizer' FAQ entries more generic
+
+Revision 2.98 2013/12/16 11:20:14 fabiankeil
+Spell 'more reliably' more correctly
+
+Reported by Reuben Thomas in #3615276.
+
+Revision 2.97 2013/11/07 14:42:02 fabiankeil
+White-space adjustments for the previous commit
+
+Revision 2.96 2013/11/06 19:24:18 diem
+Added an entry for the _privoxy user account deletion issue when upgrading to OS X 10.9
+
+Revision 2.95 2013/11/06 16:28:58 fabiankeil
+Rephrase the 'Why is the configuration so complicated?' answer
+
+.. to be slightly less condescending.
+
+Anonymously suggested in #3615122.
+
+Revision 2.94 2013/06/21 14:46:46 fabiankeil
+Link to the SPI homepage instead of the "About SPI" page which no longer exists
+
+Reported by Mark Nelson in #3614557.
+
+Revision 2.93 2013/06/21 14:46:09 fabiankeil
+Update link to the SF registration form
+
+Reported by Mark Nelson in #3614557.
+
+Revision 2.92 2013/03/01 17:44:24 fabiankeil
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+
+Revision 2.91 2013/02/26 15:09:35 fabiankeil
+Bump entities for 3.0.21 UNRELEASED
+
+Revision 2.90 2013/01/06 11:25:52 fabiankeil
+Set entities to 3.0.20 beta
+
+Revision 2.89 2012/06/19 12:49:48 fabiankeil
+Update Junkbuster-related FAQ sections
+
+Remove the dead links and use the past tense as
+the fork happened years ago.
+
+Revision 2.88 2012/04/22 12:16:24 fabiankeil
+Remove an obsolete newstuff marker
+
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