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Re: [LUG] Privoxy

 

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 08:43:17AM +0000, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> I have seen some items of TV about phorm and its new idea for
> advertising on line. I have also read the emails in this list about it.
> 
> I have come across Privoxy as a way to protect one's privacy a bit. Has
> anyone any experience of it? Any help, comments etc please?
> 

I have just experimented with installing Tor (www.torproject.org) on debian which 
installs privoxy as a package. Tor increases privacy but does slow down browsing 
quite a bit

I do not know what value privoxy adds


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Henry
Thu Mar 13 08:52:05 GMT 2008



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