[tor-dev] Tor Browser and Privoxy

[Paulo Roberto]

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 <
arthuredelstein at 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 <betobrandao at 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.
> >
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