This FAQ gives quick answers to frequently asked questions about
What is Privoxy?
Privoxy is a
+> Privoxy is a non-caching
web proxy
- with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting
- privacy, modifying web page data, managing
+ 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 very flexible configuration and can be
+ 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 based on Internet Junkbuster (tm).
Please note that this document is a work in progress. This copy represents
- the state at the release of version 3.0.6.
+ the state at the release of version 3.0.7.
You can find the latest version of the document at - 1.1. Who should use Privoxy?
- 1.9. Can Privoxy make mistakes?
This does not sound very scientific.
- 1.10. Will I have to configure Privoxy
before I can use it?
- 2.4. Can I install
- Privoxy over Junkbuster?
- 2.5. I just installed Privoxy. Is there anything
special I have to do now?
- 2.6. 2.5. What is the proxy address of Privoxy?
- 2.7. 2.6. I just installed Privoxy, and nothing is happening.
All the ads are there. What's wrong?
- 2.8. 2.7. I get a
- 3.1. What exactly is an "actions"
- 3.3. How are actions files configured? What is the easiest
way to do this?
- 3.4. There are several different "actions"
- 3.11. What is the default.filter
- 3.13. Instead of ads, now I get a checkerboard pattern. I don't want to see anything.
- 3.14. Why would anybody want to see a checkerboard pattern?
- 3.15. I see some images being replaced by a text
+HREF="configuration.html#AEN542"
+>I see some images being replaced with text
instead of the checkerboard image. Why and how do I get rid of this?
- 3.20. Can Privoxy run as a "intercepting" proxy?
- 3.21. How can I configure Privoxy for use with Outlook
Express?
- 3.21. 3.22. How can I have separate rules just for HTML mail?
- 3.22. 3.23. I sometimes notice cookies sneaking through. How?
- 3.23. 3.24. Are all cookies bad? Why?
- 3.24. 3.25. How can I allow permanent cookies for my trusted sites?
- 3.25. 3.26. Can I have separate configurations for different users?
- 3.26. 3.27. Can I set-up Privoxy as a whitelist of
sites?
- 3.27. 3.28. How can I turn off ad-blocking?
- 3.28. 3.29. How can I have custom template pages, like the
page?
- 3.29. 3.30. How can I remove the
- 4.1. How much does Privoxy slow my browsing down? This
has to add extra time to browsing.
4.2. I notice considerable
-delays in page requests compared to the old Junkbuster. What's wrong?
- 4.3.
- 4.8. Can Privoxy guarantee I am anonymous?
- 4.9. A test site says I am not using a Proxy.
- 4.11. Might some things break because header information or
content is being altered?
- 4.12. Can Privoxy act as a "caching"
- 4.13. What about as a firewall? Can Privoxy protect me?
- 4.14. I have large empty spaces / a checkerboard pattern now where
ads used to be. Why?
- 4.15. How can Privoxy filter Secure (HTTPS) URLs?
- 4.16. Privoxy runs as a "server""MicroSuck"
! Why are you manipulating my browsing? - 4.26. Does Privoxy produce "valid" HTML (or XHTML)?
- 5.1. I cannot connect to any websites. Or, I am getting
- 5.3. I just added a new rule, but the steenkin ad is
still getting through. How?
- 7.1. License
- 7.2. History