Privoxy
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| Privoxy | |
|---|---|
| Developed by | Privoxy Developers |
| Stable release | 3.0.8 (January 20, 2008) [+/−] |
| Preview release | None (n/a) [+/−] |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Genre | Filtering proxy |
| License | GPL |
| Website | www.privoxy.org |
Privoxy is a web proxy program, frequently used in combination with Tor and Squid. It has filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, modifying web page data, managing cookies, controlling access, and selectively removing content such as ads, banners and pop-ups. Privoxy can be customized. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
Privoxy is based on the Internet Junkbuster and is released under the GNU General Public License. It runs on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, OS/2, AmigaOS, BeOS, and most flavors of Unix. Almost any web browser should be able to use Privoxy.
Privoxy combined with Tor is also used around the world to bypass Internet censorship.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Privoxy's Sourceforge project page
- Privoxy Universal Binary installer for Mac OS X
- HowTo Anonymity With Tor and Privoxy (for Gentoo Linux users, but most information, except details such as names of system scripts and packages can be applied to most Unix-like systems)
