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Old December 25th 17, 07:12 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default A usable free proxy server for Windows users (emphasis on usable!)

On Mon, 25 Dec 2017 06:38:56 +0000 (UTC), Chaya Eve wrote:

Of those, the only one that *looks* like what I am asking about is
privoxy, but I'm not yet quite sure what privoxy actually does
(despite reading the FAQ at https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html.


From what I remember from using it a while ago, it resides on your
machine (or on your LAN) so it won't hide your IP address if that's
important to you.

It's good at ad-blocking, but then so is Firefox (AdBlock) and
Opera.
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