How to install Privoxy and combine it with Tor

In this post I’ll show you how you can improve your privacy and anonymity while you are browsing on some websites. For this purpose I’ll use Privoxy and Tor. Privoxy is a non-caching web-proxy with filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy. Tor uses an overlay network of volunteers and relays your traffic through the Tor network to it’s destination. It also encrypts your data, so no Tor node (except the exit node) can read your data.

This is not a high-security setup, but it should improve your privacy and anonymity.

1. Privoxy
2. Tor
3. Combine Privoxy and Tor
4. Appendix

How to set up TOR from source

In this post I’ll show you how to set up TOR (The Onion Router). You can use TOR to surf anonymously but I recommend NOT to use services with logins which can be connected to your real identity, e.g. email, instant-messanger, etc. You don’t know how the TOR-exit node is configured.