You should as well be able to see the service listening on a tcp port 8118 by using ss or netstat commands. Gur 07 10:38:02 mypc systemd: Started Privacy enhancing HTTP Proxy. Gur 07 10:38:01 mypc systemd: Starting Privacy enhancing HTTP Proxy. └─3274 /usr/sbin/privoxy -pidfile /var/run/privoxy.pid -user privoxy /etc/privoxy/config Process: 3273 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/privoxy -pidfile $PIDFILE -user $OWNER $CONFIGFILE (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rvice enabled vendor preset: enabled)Īctive: active ( running) since Rob 10:38:02 EAT 2min 17s ago You can then confirm the service is running using: $ sudo systemctl status privoxy If for any reason it is not enabled to start on boot up, enable it using: $ sudo systemctl enable privoxy To start proxy manually, run the command: $ sudo systemctl start privoxy Alternately, you can have Privoxy listen on all available interfaces: listen-address :8118 Configure all browsers on the network to use this address and port number.

This will bind privoxy service to 192.168.1.1 ip address. Save the file, and restart Privoxy. On Privoxy main configuration file /etc/privoxy/config, add a line like below with your host IP address. If you're setting Privoxy on a server in your LAN, make sure to replace 127.0.0.1 with the IP address of the server machine. This setting is usually located under preferences settings section. Configure Browser to use Privoxyīefore you start using privoxy service, you need to configure your browser(s) to use Privoxy as an HTTP and HTTPS (SSL) proxy. The default is 127.0.0.1 (or localhost) for the proxy address, and port 8118. Any browser that can be configured to use a proxy, which should be virtually all browsers, including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari among others. This way all the configuration is in one place, and you don't have to maintain a similar configuration for possibly many browsers or users. # ls -l /etc/privoxy/ | awk ''Įven though web browsers nowadays have built-in features similar to privoxy, the proxy is a good choice if you use multiple browsers, or have a LAN with multiple computers since Privoxy can run as a server application. $ sudo apt-get install privoxyĪll its configuration files will be located under /etc/privoxy directory. Privoxy package is available on upstream repositories for Ubuntu and it can be installed using apt-get package manager.

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