[Privoxy-devel] Future of Privoxy and comparison to mitmproxy

[Frank Herbrand]

Dear developers,

Privoxy has been available for a very long time now and is constantly
being developed. I would venture to guess that the developers, as well
as the users, are on average as old as I am. For the last few years,
almost all WWW communication has been encrypted via https. Privoxy has
launched https inspection for this purpose. The necessary transfer of
the "certificate authority" into the client applications is likely to be
an increasing problem, since it is precisely this hacker trick that is
taken into account as a risk in the clients.

The team around mitmproxy, as the integration of a proxy as a
man-in-the-middle, has put a lot of effort into their project to meet
this challenge.

Wouldn't it make sense for Privoxy to be "merged" into a mitmproxy
plugin in the future that makes the previous extensive filtering and
blocking features "crisis-proof" in this way with regard to current and
future browser security standardisations?

What do you think about the feature development and use cases of Privoxy
in comparisopn to mitmproxy?

Best regards,

Frank