How much does Privoxy slow my browsing down?
1342 to browsing. 1343 1344 How much of an impact depends on many things, including the CPU of the 1345 host system, how aggressive the configuration is, which specific actions 1346 are being triggered, the size of the page, the bandwidth of the 1347 connection, etc. 1348 1349 Overall, it should not slow you down any in real terms, and may actually 1350 help speed things up since ads, banners and other junk are not typically 1351 being retrieved and displayed. The actual processing time required by 1352 Privoxy itself for each page, is relatively small in the overall scheme of 1353 things, and happens very quickly. This is typically more than offset by 1354 time saved not downloading and rendering ad images and other junk content 1355 (if ad blocking is being used). 1356 1357 “Filtering” content via the filter or deanimate-gifs actions may cause a 1358 perceived slowdown, since the entire document needs to be buffered before 1359 displaying. And on very large documents, filtering may h
has to add extra time to browsing.Privoxy, http://example.com/show-proxy-args and http://i.j.b/, are no longer supported. If you still use such an old version, you should really consider – upgrading to 3.0.5.
4.8. Can Privoxy guarantee I am anonymous?
4.9. A test site says I am not using a Proxy.
Tor.
Afterwards, please take the time to at least skim through the rest +> Afterward, please take the time to at least skim through the rest of Tor’s
4.11. Might some things break because header information or content is being altered?
-has to add extra time to browsing.
How much of an impact depends on many things, including the CPU of the host system, how aggressive the configuration is, which specific actions are being triggered, @@ -120,15 +120,14 @@ >deanimate-gifs – actions will certainly cause a perceived slowdown, since the entire document + actions may cause a perceived slowdown, since the entire document needs to be buffered before displaying. And on very large documents, filtering may have some measurable impact. How much depends on the page size, the actual definition of the filter(s), etc. See below. Most other actions have little to no impact on speed.
– Also, when filtering is enabled, typically there is a disabling of – compression, (see Also, when filtering is enabled but zlib support isn’t available, compression + is often disabled (see prev
