Thursday, July 28, 2016
3 Ways to Setup Anonymous Web Browsing on Linux
3 Ways to Setup Anonymous Web Browsing on Linux
This straightforward but instructive article will assist you to surf the web furtively and secretly while using Firefox on Linux.To do this you just have to install “Tor” and “privoxy” tools.
Tor:
It is free open source software which helps you to protect in opposition to a form of network supervision that threatens individual liberty and privacy, private business actions and relationships, and affirm sanctuary recognized as traffic analysis.
1. Privoxy:
It is a non-caching web proxy with superior filtering abilities for pleasing to the eye privacy, running HTTP cookies, scheming right to use and other detestable Internet garbage. Privoxy has a stretchy arrangement and can be modified to ensemble person needs
Three Easy Steps:
1. Set-up Tor and Privoxy:
You can rapidly install Tor and Privoxy on Ubuntu with the given below command:
2. Configure Privoxy:
Edit /etc/privoxy/config by file using your preferred text editor.
For example , we will use gedit:$ sudo gedit /etc/privoxy/config
Then, overwrite the entire content of /etc/privoxy/config with this configuration file:
Generally, this file goes in /etc/privoxy/config
forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
confdir /etc/privoxy
logdir /var/log/privoxy
actionsfile standard
actionsfile default
actionsfile user
filterfile default.filter
debug 4096
debug 8192
user-manual /usr/share/doc/privoxy/user-manual
listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118
toggle 1
enable-remote-toggle 0
enable-edit-actions 0
enable-remote-http-toggle 0
buffer-limit 4096
Next, restart Privoxy with this command: “$ sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy restart”,
3. Install Firefox Torbutton plug-in:
Torbutton has a button to strongly and simply to allow or disallow the browser’s use of Tor. It is presently the only add-on that will securely manage your Tor browsing to avoid IP address form hacking cookie leakage, and general privacy hacking. Provoke Firefox and install the Torbutton plug-in. After installation, restart Firefox and you are ready to surf the web anonymously and secretly.
“$ sudo apt-get installs tor privoxy”.
2. Configure Privoxy:
Edit /etc/privoxy/config by file using your preferred text editor.
For example , we will use gedit:$ sudo gedit /etc/privoxy/config
Then, overwrite the entire content of /etc/privoxy/config with this configuration file:
Generally, this file goes in /etc/privoxy/config
forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
confdir /etc/privoxy
logdir /var/log/privoxy
actionsfile standard
actionsfile default
actionsfile user
filterfile default.filter
debug 4096
debug 8192
user-manual /usr/share/doc/privoxy/user-manual
listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118
toggle 1
enable-remote-toggle 0
enable-edit-actions 0
enable-remote-http-toggle 0
buffer-limit 4096
Next, restart Privoxy with this command: “$ sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy restart”,
3. Install Firefox Torbutton plug-in:
Torbutton has a button to strongly and simply to allow or disallow the browser’s use of Tor. It is presently the only add-on that will securely manage your Tor browsing to avoid IP address form hacking cookie leakage, and general privacy hacking. Provoke Firefox and install the Torbutton plug-in. After installation, restart Firefox and you are ready to surf the web anonymously and secretly.
