Arthur, Thank you very much. I won't use it. Regards.
Paulo Roberto On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Arthur D. Edelstein < arthuredelst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Paulo, > > This sounds highly inadvisable to me. Interposing Privoxy between Tor > Browser and Tor will most likely drastically reduce the anonymity > provided by Tor Browser, for multiple reasons: > > 1. Privoxy filters and modifies the web page in ways that are likely > to be observable to both to visited websites and to third parties, > including exit nodes. These modifications will distinguish you from > most other Tor Browser users who are not using Privoxy. And if you use > any custom Privoxy settings, those settings may make you unique among > Tor users. > > 2. It will prevent Tor Browser's normal SOCKS5 connection to the Tor > process, which is what Tor Browser uses to ensure a separate Tor > circuit is used for the connection to each website. In other words, > all your website visits will pass through the same Tor circuit, > allowing them to be correlated. > > 3. From what I understand, Privoxy (at least by default) does a lot of > logging to the disk of your local computer, including the URLs you > visit. Not good for privacy. > > I hope this helps! > > Sincerely, > Arthur Edelstein > > On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Paulo Roberto <betobran...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > By default the Tor Browser Bundle connects through SOCKS5 to the TOR > daemon. > > > > Is there any advantage today to configure Privoxy to use TOR and > configure > > the Tor Browser in the Tor Network Settings to use proxy access type > > HTTP/HTTPS pointing to Privoxy? > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Paulo Roberto. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tor-dev mailing list > > tor-dev@lists.torproject.org > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-dev@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev >
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