Editing Privoxy (section)

{{Short description|Non-caching proxy server}}
{{Infobox software
|name                 = Privoxy
|logo                 = Privoxy Icon.png
|screenshot           =
|caption              = Privoxy on [[Windows XP]]
|developer            = Privoxy Developers
|released             = 2001
|programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]
|repo                 = {{URL|https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/}}
|platform             = 
|language             =
|genre                = Filtering [[Proxy server|proxy]]
|license              = [[GNU GPLv2]]
}}

'''Privoxy''' is a free non-[[Web cache|caching]] [[Proxy_server#Web_proxy_servers|web proxy]] with filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, manipulating cookies and modifying [[web page]] data and [[HTTP]] headers before the page is rendered by the browser. Privoxy is a "privacy enhancing proxy", filtering web pages and removing advertisements. Privoxy can be customized by users, for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.privoxy.org/faq/|title=Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions}}</ref> Privoxy can be chained to other proxies and is frequently used in combination with [[Squid (software)|Squid]] among others and can be used to bypass [[Internet censorship]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.linux-magazin.de/Ausgaben/2012/03/Privoxy|title=Anonymisieren mit Squid und Privoxy|last1=Feilner|first1=Markus|last2=Husemann|first2=Falk|journal=[[Linux Magazin]]|issue=March 2012|access-date=2014-03-27|language=de}}</ref>