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# 1. Introduction

This documentation is included with the current stable version of Privoxy, 4.0.0.

## 1.1. Features

In addition to the core features of ad blocking and cookie management, Privoxy provides many supplemental features, that give the end-user more control, more privacy and more freedom:

- Supports "Connection: keep-alive". Outgoing connections can be kept alive independently from the client.

- Supports IPv6, provided the operating system does so too, and the configure script detects it.

- Supports tagging which allows to change the behaviour based on client and server headers.

- Supports https inspection which allows to filter https requests and responses.

- Can be run as an "intercepting" proxy, which obviates the need to configure browsers individually.

- Sophisticated actions and filters for manipulating both server and client headers.

- Can be chained with other proxies.

- Integrated browser-based configuration and control utility at http://config.privoxy.org/ (shortcut: http://p.p/). Browser-based tracing of rule and filter effects. Remote toggling.

- Web page filtering (text replacements, removes banners based on size, invisible "web-bugs" and HTML annoyances, etc.)

- Modularized configuration that allows for standard settings and user settings to reside in separate files, so that installing updated actions files won't overwrite individual user settings.

- Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the configuration files, and a more sophisticated and flexible configuration syntax.

- GIF de-animation.

- Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection).

- User-customizable HTML templates for most proxy-generated pages (e.g. "blocked" page).

- Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes.

- Most features are controllable on a per-site or per-location basis.

- Many smaller new features added, limitations and bugs removed.

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