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diff --git a/debian/README.privoxy b/debian/README.privoxy new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0f4b4f9d95 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/README.privoxy @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Tor only provides TCP layer anonymity. It does not do any protocol +cleaning, so if you are going to browse the web you still give away a +lot of information to servers. + +The privoxy package provides a privacy enhancing HTTP proxy, which +is good at filtering headers, cookies, and much more. To view the +description of the Debian privoxy package just run "apt-cache show +privoxy". Please refer to the privoxy documentation for more details. + +In order to use privoxy over tor, add the following line to your +privoxy configuration file: + forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 . +(the dot is important) + +Then configure your browser to use privoxy as its HTTP proxy. + +-- +Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>, Tue, 17 Feb 2004 02:15:36 +0100 |