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<title>Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions</title>
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<quote><emphasis>Privacy Enhancing Proxy</emphasis></quote>.
</para>
<para>
- There are possible legal complications from the continued use of the
+ There are potential legal complications from the continued use of the
<application>Junkbuster</application> name, which is a trademark of
<ulink url="http://junkbusters.com">Junkbusters Corporation</ulink>.
(There are, however, no objections from Junkbusters Corporation to the
</para>
<para>
- The developers also believed that there so many changes from the original
+ The developers also believed that there are so many changes from the original
code, that it was time to make a clean break from the past and make
a name in their own right, especially now with the pending release of
version 3.0.
<application>Privoxy</application> configuration is very flexible, and
includes tools to help identify these types of situations so they can be
addressed as needed, allowing you to customize your installation.
- (<link linkend="badsite">See the appendix below</link>.)
+ (<link linkend="badsite">See the Troubleshooting section below</link>.)
</para>
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<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="newconfig"><title>Can I use my old config files?</title>
<para>
- There are major changes to <application>Junkbuster</application>,
- <application>Privoxy</application>, configuration from version 2.0.x to
+ There are major changes to <application>Junkbuster</application>/
+ <application>Privoxy</application> configuration from version 2.0.x to
2.9.x and later. Most of the older files will not work at all. This is
especially true of <filename>blocklist</filename>. If this is the case, you
will need to re-enter your old data into the new configuration structure.
</sect2>
<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="actionss">
-<title>The <quote>actions</quote>concept confuses me. Please list
+<title>The <quote>actions</quote> concept confuses me. Please list
some of these <quote>actions</quote>.</title>
<para>
These are all explained in the
browser? Does that not raise security issues?</title>
<para>
What I don't understand, is how I can browser edit the config file as a
-regular user, while the whole /etc/privoxy hierarchy belongs to the user
-"privoxy", with only 644 perms.
+regular user, while the whole <filename>/etc/privoxy</filename> hierarchy
+belongs to the user <quote>privoxy</quote>, with only 644 permissions.
</para>
<para>
When you use the browser-based editor, <application>Privoxy</application>
itself is writing to the config files. Because
-<application>Privoxy</application> is running as the user "privoxy", it can
+<application>Privoxy</application> is running as the user <quote>privoxy</quote>, it can
update the config files.
</para>
<para>
-If you don't like this, setting "enable-edit-actions 0" in the config file
-will disable the browser-based editor. If you're that paranoid, you should
-also consider setting "enable-remote-toggle 0" to prevent browser-based
-enabling/disabling of <application>Privoxy</application>.
+If you don't like this, setting <quote>enable-edit-actions 0</quote> in the
+config file will disable the browser-based editor. If you're that paranoid,
+you should also consider setting <quote>enable-remote-toggle 0</quote> to prevent
+browser-based enabling/disabling of <application>Privoxy</application>.
</para>
<para>
-Note that normally only local users can connect to <application>Privoxy</application>, so this is not
-(normally) a security problem.
+Note that normally only local users can connect to
+<application>Privoxy</application>, so this is not (normally) a security
+problem.
</para>
</sect2>
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