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Privoxy Documentation

What is Privoxy?

Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.

Configuration

Our configuration (config/privoxy/config) is designed for Minimal Privacy.

Key Settings

  • Listen Address: 127.0.0.1:8118 (Localhost only)
  • Toggle: Enabled (can be disabled via web interface if configured)
  • Actions:
    • match-all.action: Global defaults.
    • default.action: Standard filtering rules.

Setup

The script scripts/setup_privoxy.sh (or install-privoxy command):

  1. Installs Privoxy via Homebrew.
  2. Copies config and all *.action and *.filter files from config/privoxy/ to the installation directory. This allows you to easily add custom rules by simply dropping files into the config folder.
  3. Starts the Privoxy service.

Browser Configuration

For Privoxy to work, you must configure your browser or system to use it as an HTTP/HTTPS proxy.

Firefox Settings:

  1. Go to Settings -> General -> Network Settings.
  2. Select "Manual proxy configuration".
  3. HTTP Proxy: 127.0.0.1 Port: 8118
  4. Check "Also use this proxy for HTTPS".

Advanced: Ad Blocking

Privoxy can be used as a powerful adblocker. You can download and update action files from community projects like privoxy-blocklist to block thousands of ad domains at the proxy level.