[Privoxy-users] Does Privoxy work with recent Android 9?

[Ian Silvester]

Hi Cilantro, 

I now run Android 10 and see the exact same behaviour as you, so I suspect the existing Android Privoxy binary is simply incompatible with more recent Android versions. From the ticket you reference it seems the last known compatible is Android 7 (unless anyone can report differently?). 

Conveniently though, I now run the same Linux platform from which Android Privoxy was cross-compiled. I'll speak to the Privoxy user who got this working in the first place and see if I can follow his steps with the latest codebase, though I cannot promise when I'll find time. When you see an updated Android release of Privoxy it'll be because I got it working! 

Watch this space.. 

Ian



On Mon, 1 Jun 2020, at 23:43, cilantro05 at comcast.net wrote:
> After having used Privoxy for years under multiple Linux flavors, I'm
> now trying to install Privoxy 3.0.26 on my Galaxy S4 tablet, running
> Android 9, with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor.
> 
> Tried following the instructions at:
> 	https://www.privoxy.org/sf-download-mirror/Android/3.0.25%20(beta)/privoxy%20readme.txt
> 
> No luck; permission denied.  Found the bug report at:
> 	https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/bugs/907/
> and allowed ConnectBot Storage access, which clearly helped.  But now
> the error message is "Bad system call".
> 
> Does Privoxy run on more recent versions of Android?  I couldn't find
> anything else in the tickets, and don't know how to search the mailing
> list.  Probably not interested in trying to compile it myself.
> 
> Thank you for a great piece of software.
> 
> Cilantro
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