[Privoxy-users] Query about enabling javascript?

[Fabian Keil]

rjb73 at protonmail.com wrote on 2021-01-07:

> Thank you so much for your reply concerning my query about javascript.
> You mentioned about privoxy not hiding my ip address?

If Privoxy is not using another proxy like Tor, websites
will see the IP address of the system running Privoxy.

This IP address may be different from the client's IP address
if the client is running on a different system.

> 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?

You can check at http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info
if Privoxy is using a proxy.

> 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?

I mainly use Firefox and Chromium. I'm not happy with either one.

Fabian
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