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Can Privoxy guarantee I am anonymous?

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Can Privoxy guarantee I am anonymous?

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1468 1469 No. Your chances of remaining anonymous are improved, but unless you chain 1470 Privoxy with Tor or a similar proxy and know what you’re doing when it 1471 comes to configuring the rest of your system, you should assume that 1472 everything you do on the Web can be traced back to you. 1473 1474 Privoxy can remove various information about you, and allows you more 1475 freedom to decide which sites you can trust, and what details you want to 1476 reveal. But it neither hides your IP address, nor can it guarantee that 1477 the rest of the system behaves correctly. There are several possibilities 1478 how a web sites can find out who you are, even if you are using a strict 1479 Privoxy configuration and chained it with Tor. 1480 1481 Most of Privoxy’s privacy-enhancing features can be easily subverted by an 1482 insecure browser configuration, therefore you should use a browser that 1483 can be configured to only execute code from trusted sites, and be careful 1484 which sites y

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4.9. A test site says I am not using a Proxy.

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