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@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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