Privoxy proxy

[ph00lt0]

Any thoughts on privoxy?

https://privoxy.org

[matchboxbananasynergy]

What is the usecase for this?

[ph00lt0]

good q, from my understanding it strips a lot of data from browser requests and makes them look much more generic and additionally it blocks ads, trackers, and the like.

[matchboxbananasynergy]

It seems that the last update was in December 2021. That doesn't inspire confidence.

[ph00lt0]

https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/discussions/categories/questions I thought this to be very suitable. Matrix could have worked to actually. Just feel this gives more opportunity to look into it.

[freddy-m]

Under the current categories, yes. Just wondering whether we should change them...

[ghost]

I think it's fine because it's discussions. Issues are for the more formal requests / site developments imo. Also with matrix you eould have people asking the same thing multiple times because you can't search. And with github discussions you can have more spaced out longer term discussiond than reddit where posts are quickly forgotten

[freddy-m]

As per Jonah:

Issues just have to be actionable (no discussions, no questions, no duplicates):

We can open issues for suggestions that (1) we absolutely want to do, i.e. they're confirmed, and (2) someone specifically is planning on actually doing it eventually, i.e. they're assignable.

The main reason for this over something more emphemeral such as Matrix is searchability. However I feel as though sometimes people just dump software suggestions here without doing any of there own research - even just checking whether something is in active development etc...

[jonaharagon]

@freddy-m (just note that what you quoted is specific to Issues and not Discussions, this is the reason we have both in the first place)

I've been thinking about this, and I think that anything which is suitable on the subreddit is also suitable here on GitHub Discussions. However (no offense) this is a low-effort post which is edging close to a violation of subreddit rule 9 (which should be enforced similarly here). I think that questions here need to either be very specific questions (i.e. not just "can I get your thoughts on x?" or "has anyone heard of x?"), and/or broad questions which the poster attempts to answer or provide context to in the OP.

For example, if this post looked like:

What are your thoughts on privoxy? I looked into it and it seems to have some benefits:

• insert cool feature here
• ...

I'm not sure if all this stuff is already covered by the other recommendations like uBlock Origin though. Am I missing anything here?

That would be a constructive conversation people could build on. Posting a topic and then punting all the research responsibility onto the reader should be discouraged here.