@efkawe

From my limited experience with Privoxy this is what I can tell you.

Your picture examples shows how to configure it with a "customer config".

I simply enabled it, left transparent mode off (had issues accessing my router's web interface eventhough privoxy was running.)

This configuration works "somewhat", I say somewhat because I was using OTRW Pixelserv script and it blocked ALL my ads. When I turned off Pixelserv and started using Privoxy, I started getting ads from some sites that I visit a lot like the DD-WRT site. Many others were effectively blocked.

About the CLIENT setup. All I had to do was go to Internet settings (Windows7) and configured my browser proxy to "Automatically detect proxy" and that did it.

I acknowledge and even agree to a large extent with Kong's comment about the dangers associated with depending on an external entity to feed your a hosts file that one day may be compromised and set you up to be suckered and sent to a malware / phishing site.

On the other hand, I think the folks at ( http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt ) that publish that famous hosts file would be quickly exposed by the many users of their list (especially the open source community).

So like most security-related decisions, you have to weigh your options and acceptable risk to attain a certain degree of security and ad blocking because we all know that 100% secure is ONLY achieved by pulling the network cable off the wall, and that would be another discussion :).

If Privoxy could block as much as Pixelserv, I would go all in. Now I just started testing both of them together and let's see how that goes.

@Kong - Do you have any feedback or perspective on using a hybrid approach.

I wonder if there some other check-and-balance validation of the Winhelp2000 hosts file that is used by Pixelserv.

@efkawe

What are you referring to when you say 'Maybe it is a bug...'

@efkawe,

the access restriction filter that is implemented in dd-wrt checks traffic from wan-lan, once ypu use privoxy, the traffic goes from wan-router router-client, thus the rule will not match and the traffic is not beeing checked. Thus you would have to either add another iptable rule or customize privoxy rules.

Now, I try to modify privoxy.conf in /tmp for some time. But somehow it does not work for me: If I reboot edited Information gets lost.
I tried to do modification in the custom configuration window (e.g. changeing directories, editable-setting,...) but there is no influence except of privoxy does not work at all.
Defining my custom action rules was possible by mounting a diretory from an USB-disk to /etc/privoxy ...
Is there a way to modify privoxy.conf permanently?

Kong said: @efkawe, the access restriction filter that is implemented in dd-wrt checks traffic from wan-lan, once ypu use privoxy, the traffic goes from wan-router router-client, thus the rule will not match and the traffic is not beeing checked. Thus you would have to either add another iptable rule or customize privoxy rules.

Hi Kong, I have setup a E3000 router with Kong Build 18010 with Privoxy enabled. Proivoxy is setup as transparent. I have Access Restrictions setup for the children's devices but with Privoxy enabled the access restrictions don't work.

Can you provide iptable examples that allows Access Resitrictions and Privoxy to work together?

TIA!

Transparent mode=no restrictions.