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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: jollygiant on March 06, 2012, 10:29 pm

Title: Importance of privoxy?
Post by: jollygiant on March 06, 2012, 10:29 pm
how important is it to run privoxy? I know it's a minor thing to get setup but I realized it wasn't running for a little bit. should I be worried?
Title: Re: Importance of privoxy?
Post by: kmfkewm on March 06, 2012, 10:37 pm
you shouldn't even be using privoxy just point firefox right at Tor and set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true in about:config
Title: Re: Importance of privoxy?
Post by: jollygiant on March 06, 2012, 10:43 pm
am I to assume the guides are out of date or perhaps written by someone less informed than yourself? It seems a lot of the guides recommend privoxy.

network.proxy.socks_remote_dns was true, thanks.
Title: Re: Importance of privoxy?
Post by: kmfkewm on March 06, 2012, 10:47 pm
The guides are out of date

Using privoxy isn't as bad as using polipo. But right now the official suggestion of the Tor project is to use nothing and just point firefox at Tor.

Actually the official suggest of the Tor project is to *only* use the tor browser bundle, and failing that you should be using firefox with the TBB patches (not going to bother digging them up right now sorry), and failing that using a live CD distro that applies the TBB firefox patches (tails does, not sure about liberte).
Title: Re: Importance of privoxy?
Post by: jollygiant on March 06, 2012, 10:53 pm
thanks for the info.