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#6 Re: Protecting your online privacy with tor Posted by Anonymous (140.247.xx.xx) on Thu 28 Apr 2005 at 02:10 I've been using TOR w/privoxy for quite a while, and have found that every now and then TOR becomes unusable, either because the TOR network is not responding, or because Google rejects connections saying something about a virus hassling their network. To work around these cases, I've set up two instances of privoxy, with privoxy alone on port 8118, and privoxy/TOR on 8119. With the Switchproxy extension in Firefox, I can easily switch between the two. Creation of a second privoxy instance is a breeze. Copy /etc/privoxy/config to /etc/privoxy/config-onion and add the line: forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 . to /etc/privoxy/config-onion. Then copy /etc/init.d/privoxy to /etc/init.d/privoxy-onion and edit the copy, changing NAME, DESC, and CONFIGFILE. NAME and DESC can be whatever makes you happy, and CONFIGFILE should be /etc/privoxy/config-onion. Nuthin' to it. Then just /etc/init.d/privoxy-onion start and away you go. This unfortunately leaves you with two configuration files, but it's not all that often you'd want to twiddle the configuration so it's probably a non-issue for most of us.
To work around these cases, I've set up two instances of privoxy, with privoxy alone on port 8118, and privoxy/TOR on 8119. With the Switchproxy extension in Firefox, I can easily switch between the two.
Creation of a second privoxy instance is a breeze. Copy /etc/privoxy/config to /etc/privoxy/config-onion and add the line:
forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .
to /etc/privoxy/config-onion. Then copy /etc/init.d/privoxy to /etc/init.d/privoxy-onion and edit the copy, changing NAME, DESC, and CONFIGFILE. NAME and DESC can be whatever makes you happy, and CONFIGFILE should be /etc/privoxy/config-onion. Nuthin' to it. Then just /etc/init.d/privoxy-onion start and away you go.
This unfortunately leaves you with two configuration files, but it's not all that often you'd want to twiddle the configuration so it's probably a non-issue for most of us.
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