Privoxy && tor

Posted by Nico Golde in random blurb
Tuesday, October 18. 2005

It seems that there is quite a big hype around tor the onion router project and the privoxy a web proxy.

So I installed it too

I haven't tested more than http anonymizing but it seems that the performance sucks in a way.
Maybe my configuration. Is there a way to tune the performance of privoxy in combination with tor a little bit?

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Performance of effective anonymizers is generally bad, but you have to think in another way: what is worse, having slow internet or being repressed and/or detained for the stuff you send, receive or simply view on the internet?

#1 ak on 2005-10-19 09:57 (Reply)

No big performance problems with privoxy here.

I have two privoxies running, both mainly for modification of websites: Filtering advertisments and evil JavaShit, modifiying pages so that I can use them better, e.g. inserting anchors, resizing textareas to useful sizes, removing target=_blank attributes, etc.

One runs at home on a 233 MHz P2 from Backports.org on Woody, which is a little bit slow sometimes, especially on long pages, but it works fine though. On my 2.6 GHz SuSE desktop at work, there runs also a privoxy (in a chroot environment). I only notice it if a host isn't reachable, but else I see no performance issues. But maybe, I'm just used to it and still satisfied...

The only thing which is currently annoying is that the ad filter (or it least my configuration of it) seems also to get rid of serendipity's captchas. So I'm posting this without privoxy in between.

Haven't used tor yet...

#2 Axel (Homepage) on 2005-10-19 11:10 (Reply)

It depends when you use Tor. I discovered that the network is usually faster in the morning. It gets slower when US wakes up.

#3 Jens Kubieziel (Homepage) on 2005-10-19 17:47 (Reply)

mhm privacy, paranoia and performance, its definetly a discrepancy

#4 nion (Homepage) on 2005-10-19 18:04 (Reply)

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