[Privoxy-users] Query about enabling javascript?

[rjb73 at protonmail.com]

Hi fabian,
Thank you so much for your reply concerning my query about javascript.
You mentioned about privoxy not hiding my ip address?
But it seems to be doing just that because when i went too startpage and typed in whats my ip address its showing up different and says im in a different area now, which i thought was the whole reason for using privoxy?

Yes you are correct about brave being integrated with the TOR browser but only when you percifically ask too search via TOR otherwise its just like any other browser.

Whilst using TOR though it opens a completely new browser window totally seperately from the normal brave tabs,so its like using 2 browsers at the same time.
Its a nightmare though as it blocks everything automatically & very few websites even open up properly.

Out of curiosity fabian,  as you said you were not familiar with brave browser what browser do you normally use privoxy with please?

Thank you for your time on this matter,i appreciate it mate!


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On Saturday, December 26, 2020 11:34 AM, Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote:

> rjb73 at protonmail.com wrote on 2020-12-24:
>
> > I downloaded privoxy 3.0.29 earlier today on a windows 7 32-bit machine
> > with the brave 1.15.76 browser,initially it did not work until i went
> > into the settings in brave and clicked on "Open your computers proxy
> > settings" and clicked on the Lan settings tab and manually entered
> > 127.0.0.1. & port 8118 and ticked the box that says use a proxy server
> > for your Lan. Then it seems to be working fine as when i used startpage
> > search for my IP address it came back different and in a different
> > location which is good.
>
> Note that Privoxy by itself does not hide your IP address.
>
> You need to chain it to another proxy like Tor to do this:
> https://www.privoxy.org/faq/misc.html#IP
> https://www.privoxy.org/faq/misc.html#TOR
>
> I'm not familiar with "Brave" but as it's supposed to have
> integrated Tor support I'm also wondering if you didn't
> effectively only change how Tor is accessing the Internet.
>
> Privoxy works best with Tor when configured like this:
> Browser -> Privoxy -> Tor -> Internet
>
> One can also configure it like this:
> Browser -> Tor -> Privoxy -> Internet
>
> In the second case Privoxy only sees encrypted connections
> from Tor and can only forward them without filtering ads etc.
>
> You can try to access http://p.p/ to see if Privoxy is
> getting http requests from the browser.
>
> > I wanted to ask please if i should be allowing javascript to be enabled
> > as when ever i click edit on the privoxy icon in the taskbar brave asks
> > to enable javascript and when i allowed it and blocked all the requests
> > for everything else,location,Usb devices,sound,images,payment handlers
> > etc except allowing javascript i wondered if javascript should stay
> > blocked on each page that opens in brave whilst using privoxy?
>
> While Privoxy has some filters that affect JavaScript,
> it can't reliably suppress JavaScript and thus does not
> protect against JavaScript-based attacks.
>
> The browser is in a much better position to reliably suppress
> JavaScript so if your browser allows to disable JavaScript,
> and that is what you want, you should probably continue to
> leave this job to the browser.
>
> Fabian