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Privoxy
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Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy. Privoxy can be paired with Squid to provide filtering to it.
Installation
USE flags
USE flags for net-proxy/privoxy A web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy
+acl
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Add support for Access Control Lists |
+fast-redirects
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Support fast redirects |
+force
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Allow single-page disable (force load) |
+image-blocking
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Allows the +handle-as-image action, to send "blocked" images instead of HTML |
+jit
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Enable PCRE jit (recommended) |
+mbedtls
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Use net-libs/mbedtls for HTTPS filtering |
+stats
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Keep statistics |
+threads
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Enable POSIX threads. Highly recommended, otherwise both build and run-time features may not work properly. |
+zlib
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Decompress zlib compressed data using sys-libs/zlib before filtering |
brotli
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Decompress brotli compressed data using app-arch/brotli before filtering |
client-tags
|
Enable support for client-specific tags |
compression
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Allow privoxy to compress buffered content before sending to the client, if it supports it |
editor
|
Enable the web-based actions file editor |
extended-host-patterns
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Enable and require PCRE syntax in host patterns. You must convert action files to PCRE, see privoxy-url-pattern-translator.pl (see tools USE flag). Use at your own risk! |
extended-statistics
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Gather extended statistics |
external-filters
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Allow to filter content with scripts and programs. Experimental |
fuzz
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Exposes Privoxy internals to input from files or stdout. Intended for fuzzing testing |
graceful-termination
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Allow to shutdown Privoxy through the webinterface |
ipv6
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Add support for IP version 6 |
lfs
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Support large files (>2GB) on 32-bit systems |
openssl
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Use dev-libs/openssl for HTTPS filtering |
png-images
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Use PNG format instead of GIF for built-in images |
sanitize
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Enable asan, msan and usan sanitizers. Your compiler must support them |
selinux
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!!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur |
ssl
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HTTPS inspection support. Enables privoxy to perform SSL MITM filtering, see docs, use with care |
toggle
|
Support temporary disable toggle via web interface |
tools
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Install log parser, regression tester and user agent generator tools |
whitelists
|
Support trust files (white lists) |
Emerge
To install Privoxy:
root #emerge --ask net-proxy/privoxyBoot service
OpenRC
To start privoxy:
root #/etc/init.d/privoxy startTo make privoxy start at boot:
root #rc-update add privoxy defaultConfiguration
Browsers need to set the proxy configuration to address 127.0.0.1 and port 8118 in the browser proxy configuration or in a proxy plugin (like foxyproxy). Privoxy default configuration block ads and further configuration should edit files in /etc/privoxy/.
Test filters
There is a way to test the filters that are applied to a specific site.
If privoxy is working correctly the next URL should be intercepted by privoxy
http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info
In this page it's possible to check why a page is filtered or what filters are applied to that site.