Hi Roland, > > I'd love to be able to toggle privoxy's use of TOR (via socks) vs. > > direct internet connection as easily as toggling the filtering of > > privoxy. > > > > Rationale: I'm very fond of privoxy's filtering capabilities, and would > > like to use them all the time. In addition, I have to use TOR from time > > to time in order to access certain web pages. Unfortunately, TOR > > considerably slows down web browsing (at least from my location), so > > that its permanent use is not enjoyable at present.
> I'm only the Debian packager of privoxy, so I don't know whether it's > easy to implement, I'll have to ask the upstream maintainers, which > would be more promising, if you would provide a patch :-) I meant to take a look into the privoxy source, to see if a patch is something I could do ... but as you can see from the response time to your email, I'm way too busy at the moment to come up with something useful ... perhaps people who've already had a look at the source can do this more easily? > Anyway, did you think about defining some forward rules in > /etc/privoxy/config, which redirect only those sites to the socks > proxy, which need socks? Or do your needs change in time? The thing is, I am in Mainland China, and filtering by DNS/IP address is relatively irrelevant for me. What is more annoying is filtering based on content: it works like a bit like a spam filter, and when the threshold is reached, the connection is reset (and only half a page has been transmitted). This means that for most dynamically-generated sites (and at times even those with Google-Ads, I think), the need for TOR to view a particular article does indeed change over time, and does so unpredictably. at the moment, I don't use privoxy/tor, and when I come up against a blocked site, I change my proxy settings until I am annoyed of the (lack of) speed - or give up as it's too much of a hassle. what I plan to do as a workaround is running two daemons with two different config files, and have a script manipulate my proxy settings (port number). That could do the trick... Florian
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