<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thanks very much for the explanation.<br><br>This means when I uncheck the Enable option of Privoxy, I turn off filtering, but the proxy stays. And my current Firefox 3.5.2 + Tor + Privoxy with no filter configuration its not less safe than the polipo configuration in the Tor browser bundle.<br><br>I hope I understood right.<br><br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 25/8/09, Andrew Lewman <i><andrew@torproject.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Andrew Lewman <andrew@torproject.org><br>Subject: Re: Something that I don't understand about privoxy<br>To: or-talk@freehaven.net<br>Date: Tuesday, 25 August, 2009, 2:38 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">On 08/25/2009 09:37 AM, Sadece Gercekler wrote:<br> > So here are my questions: First of all, if privoxy is needed
for<br>> security, why wasn't it there with the former package? Did I<br>> compromise security when I used without the blue Privoxy icon? Do I<br>> compromise security when I use with the Enable option unchecked?<br><br><br>The Tor Browser Bundle, aka the portable bundle, doesn't include<br>Privoxy. It includes Polipo instead. Polipo and Privoxy serve<br>different purposes.<br><br>Privoxy and Polipo can both filter content at the proxy, before it<br>reaches your web browser. In the Tor Browser Bundle, Polipo is<br>configured without filtering and without disk cache. Polipo caches<br>objects in ram, and generally is used to speed up browsing the Internet<br>via Tor. We use Polipo as a way to get around the Firefox bugs with<br>SOCKS proxies. Using Firefox 3.0 and earlier with Tor directly can be a<br>very slow experience, due to hard-coded timeouts in Firefox. Firefox<br>3.5.x may or may not fix the
SOCKS issues enough to let us remove the<br>http proxy.<br><br>People install the Vidalia bundle so they can use their favorite web<br>browser (for good or for bad) with Tor and Privoxy. At the time the<br>Vidalia bundle was created, Opera, IE, Safari, and other browsers lacked<br>the ability to filter content via plugins. Privoxy fulfills this role.<br> This situation isn't so much the case today, but we continue to ship<br>Privoxy because no one has come up with a better browser or<br>configuration. And Firefox still has bugs with SOCKS proxies.<br><br>Torora and TorFox may be the future, where Torbutton's anonymity and<br>privacy protections are built into the browser; and they are faster at<br>interfacing with Tor directly. This removes the need for a http proxy<br>between the browser and Tor. However, research and development<br>continues on both browsers.<br><br>-- <br>Andrew Lewman<br>The Tor Project<br>pgp
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