From f4a14410ad0a7941906d983b5134a25089094302 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roger Dingledine
Using privoxy is necessary because browsers leak your +href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#SOCKSAndDNS">browsers +leak your DNS requests when they use a SOCKS proxy directly, which is bad for your anonymity. Privoxy also removes certain dangerous headers from your web requests, and blocks obnoxious ad sites like Doubleclick.
diff --git a/doc/tor-doc-win32.html b/doc/tor-doc-win32.html index 5c49832669..299c58b401 100644 --- a/doc/tor-doc-win32.html +++ b/doc/tor-doc-win32.html @@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ src="http://tor.eff.org/img/screenshot-win32-ie-lan.jpg" /> src="http://tor.eff.org/img/screenshot-win32-ie-proxies.jpg" />Using privoxy is necessary because browsers leak your +href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#SOCKSAndDNS">browsers +leak your DNS requests when they use a SOCKS proxy directly, which is bad for your anonymity. Privoxy also removes certain dangerous headers from your web requests, and blocks obnoxious ad sites like Doubleclick.
diff --git a/doc/tor-doc.html b/doc/tor-doc.html index 46b6f13f11..404451bf8c 100644 --- a/doc/tor-doc.html +++ b/doc/tor-doc.html @@ -188,7 +188,9 @@ top). Then change your browser to http proxy at localhost port 8118. (In Mozilla, this is in Edit|Preferences|Advanced|Proxies.) You should also set your SSL proxy to the same thing, to hide your SSL traffic. Using privoxy is necessary because -most browsers leak your +most +browsers leak your DNS requests when they use a SOCKS proxy directly. Privoxy also gives you good html scrubbing. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf