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4.1. How much does Privoxy slow my browsing down? This has to add extra time to browsing.

4.8. Can Privoxy guarantee I am anonymous?

4.9. A test site says I am not using a Proxy.

Tor - to increase your anonymity level, therefore you should use socks4a, to make sure DNS requests are - done through Tor and thus invisible to your local network.

and thus invisible to your + local network. Using socks4a would work too, but with socks5 you get more precise error + messages.

Since

#        forward-socks4a             /     127.0.0.1:9050 .
+>#        forward-socks5             /     127.0.0.1:9050 .
  

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" http://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/http://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/, + the Privoxy developer manual. +

+

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/, the Project Page for
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288, to submit "misses"

+

http://privacy.net/, a useful site - to check what information about you is leaked while you browse the web. -

-

http://www.squid-cache.org/
http://tor.eff.org/https://www.torproject.org/,

-

http://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/, - the Privoxy developer manual. -

4.27. How did you manage to get Privoxy on my computer without my consent?

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.

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.

Privoxy's license 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.

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.