Debian Package a Day ([info]debaday) wrote,
@ 2004-08-30 08:00:00
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privoxy - Privacy enhancing HTTP Proxy
Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, 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 based on Internet Junkbuster (tm).

Homepage: http://www.privoxy.org/

Another from Robert Waldner,
Great for those of us in environments where not everyone runs Mozilla Firefox (yet ;) ), and can easily be chained before your local squid installation.

More information on this package can be found on the Debian web site.
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Now available in RSS and ATOM flavors too.

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[info]k8to
2004-09-01 12:36 am UTC (link)

Even if you do use mozilla, privoxy lets you do thinks like:

  • block all images from rotten.com, for when some miscreant inlines a link to motorcycle face on a forum. I similarly block *tubgirl* images.
  • rewrite web pages with regexes. While clumsy, it lets me rip off useless advertising side-panels from badly designed sites I use often, giving much more space to the content.
  • rewrite forum html to remove posts from rude baiting users
  • remove ads by default, and add them back in for sites you want to support
  • Choose your own cookie policy. I accept all cookies that do not persist across browser sessions, and only allow them to be read by the setting domain.

In short, it's workable in creating a custom browsing experience.

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