On November 11, 2005 07:58, Ricardo Rodriguez Peralta wrote:
...
> A question to all of you that learned about 'privoxy' after Rikona's
> e-mail:
>
> 1. How are you guys doing?
> 2. Any inconveniences in your surfing?
> 3. What about web browsing delays?
> 4. What about web site availability?
>
> The reason I'm asking (and Rikona don't take me wrong, thanks for the
> advice) is that personally Im experiencing the following issues and would
> like to know if it just me or does someone else feel the same?:
>
> - First time you get to a site, if you get to the site, it is extremely
> slow. Once you have been there before it loads quickly.
> - I said 'if you get to the site' because very frecuently after using
> privoxy I'm not able to get to common websites as: Yahoo (I get there the
> first time but when comming back without login out on previous session just
> get the msg: ' No such domain Your request for *
> http://us.f359.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowFolder?rb=Inbox&reset=1&YY=17412&inc=2
>00&order=down
> *<http://us.f359.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowFolder?rb=Inbox&reset=1&YY=17412&inc
>=200&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b&box=Inbox&YN=1> ')
>
> and few others very common websites
>
> - Some times clicking the refresh button helps but most times it doesn't
> - So many sites are not accessible unless I tried several times (which are
> up and running if I check without using privoxy)
> - A lot of sites which I use to enter without www requires me now to use
> the complete www.format which I'm not use to.
>
> Overall how's been everyone else experience.
>
> BTW, I'm running Mozilla FireFox Ver 1.0.6
>
> Rikona: what's your web browser?
I started using it with both konqueror and firefox (I prefer konqueror most of
the time, but some sites use _javascript_ that firefox handles better). It
works great for me.
I had started a while back trying to block ads (and other stuff) using the
squid proxy on my ipcop firewall, but it didn't work out well (squid by
itself ran into problems with too many domains and urls when I downloaded
some blocking lists; squidguard apparently handles this much better, but it's
not part of ipcop by default, and I haven't had time to add it). Privoxy was
an easier solution.
I certainly didn't notice any slowdown. Might have been a modest speedup,
though between my broadband connection, my ipcop/squid caching, my fairly
fast machine, and both konq and firefox rendering so fast, pages come up so
fast it's hard to measure any speedup. Most pages load fully in under 2
seconds. Where it blocks those incredibly annoying animated graphics ads, I'm
sure it must speed things up, since those are such huge downloads.
The only inconvenience I've had, and someone else mentioned this, is that it
won't complete partial domain names. For example, I could just type "ebay",
and it would turn it into "www.ebay.com". I think it tries it with and
without "www" and all the common tlds (com, org, ...) until it gets a match.
I don't know where exactly this "search" takes place, but I know privoxy
breaks it. But I don't often use that (don't entirely trust it), so it's
hardly an inconvenience.
I downloaded the expanded blocking list that someone sent a pointer to, but I
didn't do anything with it, because I wasn't able (in 5 minutes that I could
spare) to figure out what I was supposed to do with it. It's format didn't
seem to match the formats of the privoxy config files.
--
Ron
ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net
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I apologize for my mistake, but greatly appreciate your comments (Feedback and exchanging opinions and point of views is a good way to learn).
My problem mentioned previously had nothing to do with privoxy but with some missconfiguration between my home network and my office network.
Once again, sorry for pointing privoxy but thank you for the time you spent to share your experiences.
