Privoxy

Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, modifying web page data, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customised to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks. Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm).

To install privoxy:

apt-get update
apt-get install privoxy

A default installation should provide a reasonable starting point for most. There will undoubtedly be occasions where you will want to adjust the configuration, but that can be dealt with as the need arises. Little to no initial configuration is required in most cases.

Using privoxy and the sidux meta-installer please refer here.

In the privoxy config you may need to uncomment lines and this will depend on your preferences, and it will differ for every user.

The Privoxy full user manual with advanced config topics

Tor

Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. Tor provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow organisations and individuals to share information over public networks without compromising their privacy.

You should also be aware that that internet throughput speeds will be negatively affected.

To install Tor:

apt-get update
apt-get install tor

The Tor documentation offers comprehensive on all aspects of Tor

The Tor site also has a config generator to help you set up Tor initially Form validation and torrc generator

In the tor config you may need to uncomment lines and this will depend on your preferences, and it will differ for every user.

This is a sample of the output of the torrc generator

Form validation and torrc generator

Your answers:

If any of the following are incorrect, press the
back button and enter the correct information.

1. Is a client: yes
2. Is a server: no
3. Run as a daemon: no
4. Tor directory location:
5. Listen for tor controllers: yes
6. Tor server name:
7. Tor server IP address:
8. Your contact email address:
9. Tor server port:
10. Mirror tor directories: no
10a. Mirror tor servers on port:
11. Act as a middleman only: no
12. Limit tor bandwidth availability: no
12a. Limit bandwidth to K/sec:
Validation:
No input validation carried out. Not a server.
Below is your torrc file:

-------------------- Copy below this line --------------------

## Configuration file for a typical Tor user
## Last updated 9 February 2006 for Tor 0.1.1.13-alpha.
## (May or may not work for older or newer versions of Tor.)
##
## Lines that begin with "## " try to explain what's going on. Lines
## that begin with just "#" are disabled commands: you can enable them
## by removing the "#" symbol.
##
## See the man page, or http://tor.eff.org/tor-manual-cvs.html, for more
## options you can use in this file.
##
## On Unix, Tor will look for this file in someplace like "~/.tor/torrc" or
## "/etc/torrc"
##
## On Windows, Tor will look for the configuration file in someplace like
## "Application Data	or	orrc" or "Application Data\	or	orrc"
##
## With the default Mac OS X installer, Tor will look in ~/.tor/torrc or
## /Library/Tor/torrc 
## Replace this with "SocksPort 0" if you plan to run Tor only as a
## server, and not make any local application connections yourself. 
SocksPort 9050 # what port to open for local application connections
SocksListenAddress 127.0.0.1 # accept connections only from localhost
#SocksListenAddress 192.168.0.1:9100 # listen on a chosen IP/port too

## Entry policies to allow/deny SOCKS requests based on IP address.
## First entry that matches wins. If no SocksPolicy is set, we accept
## all (and only) requests from SocksListenAddress.
#SocksPolicy accept 192.168.0.0/16
#SocksPolicy reject *

## Logs go to stdout at level "notice" unless redirected by something
## else, like one of the below lines. You can have as many Log lines as
## you want.
##
## We advise using "notice" in most cases, since anything more verbose
## may provide sensitive information to an attacker who obtains the logs.
##
## Send all messages of level 'notice' or higher to /var/log/tor/notices.log
#Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log
## Send every possible message to /var/log/tor/debug.log
#Log debug file /var/log/tor/debug.log
## Use the system log instead of Tor's logfiles
#Log notice syslog
## To send all messages to stderr:
#Log debug stderr

## Uncomment this to start the process in the background... or use
## --runasdaemon 1 on the command line. This is ignored on Windows;
## see the FAQ entry if you want Tor to run as an NT service.
#RunAsDaemon 1
## The directory for keeping all the keys/etc. By default, we store
## things in $ HOME/.tor on Unix, and in Application Data\tor on Windows.
# DataDirectory /var/lib/tor
## The port on which Tor will listen for local connections from Tor
## controller applications, as documented in control-spec.txt.
ControlPort 9051

############### This section is just for location-hidden services ###

## Look in .../hidden_service/hostname for the address to tell people.
## HiddenServicePort x y:z says to redirect a port x request from the
## client to y:z.

#HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/
#HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80

#HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/other_hidden_service/
#HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80
#HiddenServicePort 22 127.0.0.1:22
#HiddenServiceNodes moria1,moria2
#HiddenServiceExcludeNodes bad,otherbad

################ This section is just for servers #####################

## NOTE: If you enable these, you should consider mailing your identity
## key fingerprint to the tor-ops, so we can add you to the list of
## servers that clients will trust. See
## http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/tor-doc-server.html for details.

## Required: A unique handle for this server
Nickname 
## The IP or fqdn for this server. Leave commented out and Tor will guess.
#Address noname.example.com
## Contact info that will be published in the directory, so we can
## contact you if you need to upgrade or if something goes wrong.
## This is optional but recommended.#ContactInfo Random Person 
## You might also include your PGP or GPG fingerprint if you have one:
#ContactInfo 1234D/FFFFFFFF Random Person 
## Required: what port to advertise for tor connections
#ORPort 9001
## If you want to listen on a port other than the one advertised
## in ORPort (e.g. to advertise 443 but bind to 9090), uncomment
## the line below. You'll need to do ipchains or other port forwarding
## yourself to make this work.
#ORListenAddress 0.0.0.0:9090

## Uncomment this to mirror the directory for others. Please do
## if you have enough bandwidth: see the bottom of
## http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#LimitBandwidth
#DirPort 9030 # what port to advertise for directory connections
## If you want to listen on a port other than the one advertised
## in DirPort (e.g. to advertise 80 but bind 9091), uncomment the line
## below. You'll need to do ipchains or other port forwarding yourself
## to make this work.
#DirListenAddress 0.0.0.0:9091

## Uncomment this if you run more than one Tor server, and add the
## nickname of each Tor server you control, even if they're on different
## networks. We declare it here so clients can avoid using more than
## one of your servers in a given circuit.
#MyFamily nickname1,nickname2,...

## A comma-separated list of exit policies. They're considered first
## to last, and the first match wins. If you want to _replace_
## the default exit policy, end this with either a reject *:* or an
## accept *:*. Otherwise, you're _augmenting_ (prepending to) the
## default exit policy. Leave commented to just use the default, which is
## available in the man page or at http://tor.eff.org/documentation.html
##
## Look at http://tor.eff.org/faq-abuse.html#TypicalAbuses
## for issues you might encounter if you use the default exit policy.
##
## If certain IPs and ports are blocked externally, e.g. by your firewall,
## you should update your exit policy to reflect this -- otherwise Tor
## users will be told that those destinations are down.
##
#ExitPolicy accept *:6660-6667,reject *:* # allow irc ports but no more
#ExitPolicy accept *:119 # accept nntp as well as default exit policy
#ExitPolicy reject *:* # middleman only -- no exits allowed
#BandwidthRate 20 KB