[ ijbswa-Support Requests-1175868 ] Enable/Disable and Use with Tor

Support Requests item #1175868, was opened at 2005-04-03 09:18
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Category: other
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Enable/Disable and Use with Tor

Initial Comment:
Hello,

I searched for 3 or 4 hours yesterday, reading all I could on the Privoxy and 
Tor boards, and I still have a basic question.  It could be I read the answer, 
but the text was over my head, so I didn't recognize that it was the answer.

I have Windows XP.  (I try to avoid Microsoft when I can, but there's a lot to 
learn!).  Privoxy and Tor are running fine. I understand the slower loading 
because of the extra processing going on. My question is:

If I disable Tor, it seems that i have to go into Tools>Internet 
Options>Connections>LAN Settings, and turn off the Proxy Server settings, 
because the Tor Proxy isn't available.  Then, Privoxy works by itself.  

Is that correct?  

Or by putting this line in the Configuration:

forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .

mean I have to use Tor for Privoxy to work?

There are instances that I want my original IP address to log rather than the 
re-routed one through Tor.    But using Privoxy alone, if the site wants to log 
my IP address, what do they get?

Thanks for your help. I'm trying to keep this simple, but need to understand 
these basics before I can understand the bigger issues.  Have a good day... Lisa



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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2005-04-12 02:45

Message:
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if you go into tools>internet options>... and turn off the proxy server, you 
are bypassing privoxy, as well as tor. if you wish to disable tor, but keep 
privoxy, then, you are correct in that you must remove, or comment out the :
forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .
line in the privoxy configuration.

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Comment By: Matan (wilhelmtell)
Date: 2005-04-09 07:00

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=890393

I am new to these two apps as well. But I figured that privoxy gives you the 
ads and cookies aspect of the privcay, and tor gives you the ip aspect of the 
privacy. if you close tor, your connection from the browser to the internet is 
broken because privoxy talks to tor. so you either have to give up privoxy as 
well (as you said, disabling the proxy settings) or you comment out the 
forwarding in the conf file of privoxy. there might be a better, easier way to 
do the switching, and i will be more than glad to know about it.

in any case, if you close tor and connect to the internet through privoxy only 
your ip is revealed. privoxy doesn't hide your ip. a quick check to confirm 
that is by finding out your ip (running ipconfig in the command line) and then 
surfing to one of the many ip revealer websites there are to see if they can 
see your ip. www.showmyip.com is one of them.

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