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Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Enhancing Privacy by airmack 2 1. Install 3 2.Set up your Browser to use privoxy 4 3. Configure privoxy 4.1 Activate enable-edit-actions in /etc/privoxy/config 4.2 /etc/privoxy/config 4.3 Editing through the webinterface 4.4 Deactivate enable-edit-actions in /etc/privoxy/config 5 4. Set up your iptables (optional)

Enhancing Privacy by airmack

Linux only

Topic: 1.Install Privoxy

2.Set up your Browser to use privoxy

3.Configure privoxy

4.Set up your iptables

4.1. ipv4

4.2. ipv6

1. Install

emerge privoxy

or

apt-get install privoxy

2.Set up your Browser to use privoxy

e.g firefox, iceweasel, icecat

• edit->preferences -> settings
• check Manual proxy configuratoin:
• HTTP Proxy 127.0.0.1 Port 8118
• SSL Proxy 127.0.0.1 Port 8118
• click ok

3. Configure privoxy

Activate enable-edit-actions in /etc/privoxy/config

enable-edit-actions 1

/etc/privoxy/config

buffer-limit 40960 as 4096 is too small for e.g. for soup.io

Editing through the webinterface

• Go to http://config.privoxy.org/show-status
• Edit
• Add new:
  • click together the things you like e.g. change user-agent to "drop table;"
  • Save

Deactivate enable-edit-actions in /etc/privoxy/config

enable-edit-actions 0

4. Set up your iptables (optional)

Only needed if listen-address is not pointing to 127.0.0.1 e.g listen-address 192.168.0.1:8118

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp ! -s 127.0.0.1 --dport 8118 -j DROP /etc/init.d/iptables save rc-update add iptables default

ip6tables -A INPUT -p tcp ! -s ::1/128 --dport 8118 -j DROP /etc/init.d/ip6tables save rc-update add ip6tables default