On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:29:48 +0100 Matthew <pumpkin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > IMHO its important to suppress active content (Flash, ActiveX, > > Silverlight, JavaScript etc.) and other junk and therefor I prefer > > 'Privoxy' [1] instead of Polipo. > I concur but doesn't TorButton do all this suppression? Torbutton disables plugins (e.g. Java and Flash), and restricts the capabilities of JavaScript code. > That said: what was the rationale in moving from Privoxy to Polipo? Did it > happen because TorButton became standard? I think Polipo was a better cache, and since an HTTP proxy can't filter evil content out of HTTPS responses, Privoxy's filtering was not very useful. Robert Ransom
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