[Privoxy-users] On Apple Silicon (m1), installed using brew, can't find config through URL or through terminal

[Ian Silvester]

Hi Sonder,

I would suggest first of all uninstalling Privoxy entirely using the script you'll find in /Applications/Privoxy. You will need to run it from a Terminal window using sudo.

When you reinstall, a document will open in Textedit which will tell you how to configure the proxy settings on macOS to send all content via Privoxy - the fact that you get a 'Privoxy is not being used' when you visit the Privoxy config page suggests that that proxy configuration was not done.

Once you can visit the config page (I recommend using the link http://p.p, which Privoxy will intercept if it is running and your proxy settings are correct) then you are in a position to edit your config.

The configuration files are stored at /usr/local/etc/privoxy - this location might seem odd but it is a legacy of the fact that macOS was built upon BSD Unix, which prefers that user-installed programs put their configuration files at that location. You will need to use sudo to edit the files.

HTH,

Ian


On Tue, 25 Apr 2023, at 08:27, Sonder Gerard wrote:
> Hello, I installed privoxy using homebrew. It's great, but the problem is I
> can no longer view my google cameras on my mac. I want to add
> home.google.com to the whitelist using "allow-access https://home.google.com",
> but I can't find the config file.
>
> When I type https://www.privoxy.org/config/ into all browsers, even after
> clearing cache, I get "privoxy is not being used"
>
> I tried finding the config in finder but nothing "privoxy" was there.
>
> I tried using the terminal to sudo config, but the nano came up as blank.
> I tried to write a new config file to that location but it said it couldn't
> write out because it wasn't there.
>
> What do I do?
>
> Also I tried to delete privoxy entirely but that didn't work either.
> ipleak.net says that I'm using privoxy no matter what I do.
>
> So please, where can I write "allow-access https://home.google.com" and
> keep using this glorious app?
>
> Thanks. On an m1 mac and in a bit of trouble, sonder.
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