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 …

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 …

Set your browser to use Privoxy as HTTP and HTTPS (SSL) proxy by setting the proxy configuration for address of 127.0.0.1 and port 8118. DO NOT activate proxying for FTP or any protocols besides …

To manually start or stop the privoxy service, use the Privoxy Utility for Mac OS X (also part of the macsetup module). This application can start and stop the privoxy service and display its log and …

Before launching Privoxy for the first time, you will want to configure your browser (s) to use Privoxy as a HTTP and HTTPS (SSL) proxy. The default is 127.0.0.1 (or localhost) for the proxy address, and port …

Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI), which allows us to receive tax-deductible donations in the United States. You can donate via Paypal and Click & Pledge.

Privoxy is currently mainly written by and for people who are already familiar with the underlying concepts like regular expressions, HTTP and HTML, or are willing to become familiar with them to be …

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 …

In addition to the core features of ad blocking and cookie management, Privoxy provides many supplemental features, that give the end-user more control, more privacy and more freedom:

This is exactly what TLS is designed to prevent, because it's a man-in-the-middle attack. To do this, Privoxy uses its own (private) CA (let's call it "Privoxy CA"), which needs to be added to the trust …