Protect your privacy with Privoxy

Sep 04, '02 09:50:10AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Privoxy 3.0 has just been released. From the package description page:

"Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks."
I have been using prerelease (beta) versions of Privoxy for a couple of months with great results. Privoxy works out of the box as advertised and the system overhead is unnoticeable. The default settings will be good enough for most users, but Privoxy allows also a great degree of customization through a friendly Web interface. The default configuration file is updated regularly to include new servers of junk.

An installer for OS X is available from the downloads area of the Privoxy page on sourceforge.net.

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