About Privoxy:
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-Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for
-protecting privacy, modifying web page data, managing cookies,
-controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other
-obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible
-configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs
-and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems
-and multi-user networks.
+Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering
+capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data,
+managing HTTP cookies, controlling access, and removing ads,
+banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy
+has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit
+individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for
+both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm).
others), Mac OSX, OS/2, AmigaOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and
various other flavors of Unix.
-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:
+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:
* Can keep outgoing connections alive and reuse them later on.
and server headers.
* Can be run as an "intercepting" proxy, which obviates the need to
- configure browsers individually.
+ configure browsers individually.
* Sophisticated actions and filters for manipulating both server and
client headers.
files won't overwrite individual user settings.
* Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the configuration
- files, and a more sophisticated and flexible configuration syntax.
+ files, and a more sophisticated and flexible configuration syntax.
* Improved cookie management features (e.g. session based cookies).
* Multi-threaded (POSIX and native threads).
* User-customizable HTML templates for most proxy-generated pages (e.g.
- "blocked" page).
+ "blocked" page).
* Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes.
* Improved signal handling, and a true daemon mode (Unix).
* Every feature now controllable on a per-site or per-location basis,
- configuration more powerful and versatile over-all.
+ configuration more powerful and versatile over-all.
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