Submission + - The Joys of Privoxy (privoxy.org)
davide marney writes: "Recently, I was introduced to Privoxy, a perfect little gem of a utility that blocks the 15% or so of web content that is devoted to showing ads and tracking your behavior. Privoxy's great strengths are that it runs on a very wide range of platfoms, works with any browser, comes configured out of the box, and installs in minutes. On any given day I move from using IE on my company's WinXP box to Chrome running on my personal laptop, to Opera running on my OLPC XO-1. We don't have a Mac in the house yet, but if we did, Privoxy could run on that, too. What joy to have one, common privacy solution that "just works", across the board!
One unexpected benefit to running Privoxy was it convinced me to finally pony up for a paid subscription to Slashdot. Once I saw how many ads Slashdot is having to sneek in there to pay the bills, I decided that paying $5 for reading a thousand pages ad-free is really not too much to ask for the hours of benefit I get from reading and contributing."
One unexpected benefit to running Privoxy was it convinced me to finally pony up for a paid subscription to Slashdot. Once I saw how many ads Slashdot is having to sneek in there to pay the bills, I decided that paying $5 for reading a thousand pages ad-free is really not too much to ask for the hours of benefit I get from reading and contributing."
