I think that Debian is missing out on an oportunity to provide a better, safer web browsing experience to its users, by default. Our default desktop installation could include privoxy+tor and a simple way to turn it on[1]; I trust the benefits to our users are evident.
This bug report has three reasonable suggestions for how to
implement the privoxy part of this:
1. Use ucf and debconf to ask which config to use.
Has the disadvantage of adding some complexity to the packaging.
Also, this question would not be seen in a normal desktop
installation, probably.
2. Split config file into fragements and let tor include one to
configure privoxy to use it.
Again adds some complexity (and users may not like split config
files -- see for example exim). Also it's not clear to me that every
privoxy user who installs tor would want privoxy to start using it.
3. Ship privoxy preconfigured to use tor on a different port.
Has only minor problems, which seem avoidable by splitting out
a privoxy-tor package.
I'd be semi happy with any of these; #2 and #3 both seem more likely to
get us to the point where privoxy is installed and configured to use tor
in the default desktop install. #3 with a privoxy-tor package seems to me
to be the easiest to manage, both for users, and probably for the privoxy
maintainer.
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see shy jo
[1] How to simply turn it on/off is sorta out of scope for this bug report,
but I personally just use gnome-network-preferences and configure
it to use privoxy, and iceweasel and epiphany both immediatly start
using it, no plugins or browser restarts needed.
I can imagine a simple script (or GUI) that could toggle use of tor on
and off by tweaking the gconf values, which would be more user friendly
-- no need to remember ports.
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