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FreedomBox version of Privoxy
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# freedombox-privoxy

James Vasile 



Released under GPLv3 or later.  Modifications to Privoxy are copyright

2012 James Vasile and are released under GNU General Public License,

version 3 or later.



One thing many people seem to agree the FreedomBox should do is web

filtering for privacy and ad-removal.  Toward that end, this is a first

draft version of a privoxy package for FreedomBox.



To use, you can do the usual



     cd freedombox-privoxy

     make

     sudo make install



Or if you are on a Debian system:



     cd freedombox-privoxy

     sudo apt-get build-dep privoxy

     sudo apt-get install logrotate docbook-website dpatch

     make deb

     sudo apt-get purge privoxy # yes, this is necessary the first time

     sudo dpkg -i Debian/*.deb

     sudo service freedombox-privoxy restart



If you want to see what I changed, look in

Debian/freedombox-privacy*/debian/patches/9*.dpatch after doing the make

deb.  I'll get some binary packages up for x86 and Dream Plug soon.



This package differs from the standard Debian privoxy package in a few

key ways.



 * First (and most importantly) it doesn't just listen on localhost.  The

plan is eventually to control access to it via iptables, so by default

it listens to the world.  Be careful with that if your FreedomBox is

reachable via public net.



 * Second, I imported the https-everywhere ruleset as a privoxy action file

and modified the privoxy binary to handle it.



 * Third, I imported the easyprivacy ruleset from Ad-Block Plus as a

privoxy action file.  Easyprivacy is not included in ABP and most users

are unaware that they can add it in.  To me, that makes it a good

candidate for inclusion here.



 * Fourth, I *started* to pull in the easylist ruleset from ABP.  It is

impossible to fully duplicate easylist with a proxy because the proxy

lacks information the browser uses to make more nuanced decisions about

what to block.  Scripted import of easylist might be buggy, and this

needs more investigation.



 * Fifth, I lowered the amount of filtering compared to the stock

privoxy config (see the match-all.action file for details).  I did this

because unlike a proxy running on your local machine, a proxy that

clients don't control should be a bit more careful about breaking sites.

I'm trying to get down to a level where we don't break anything and then

seeing how we build up from there.



If you are a privoxy user, please do give this package a test run and

report any problems to:



     https://github.com/jvasile/freedombox-privoxy/issues



Further work will include writing a script to test all the

https-everywhere rules and discard the ones that are broken.  

As well as one to periodically check for new regexes.  Anybody

who wants to contribute to writing that is welcome to jump on in!



## Dependencies



### Privoxy



This package is based on privoxy, which is copyright (C) 2001 the

SourceForge Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/.  Privoxy is

released under GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.



### Internet Junkbuster



Privoxy is in turn based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written

by and copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters

Corporation.  http://www.junkbusters.com The Internet Junkbuster was

released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.



### https-everywhere



This package downloads https-everywhere, which is released under

GNU General Public License version 2 or later and has the following copyright

information:



Copyright © 2010 Mike Perry 

                 Peter Eckersley 



Incorporating code from NoScript,

Copyright © 2004-2007 Giorgio Maone 



### git2changelog



This package downloads git2changelog, which is copyright 2012 James

Vasile and released under GNU General Public License version 3 or

later.