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# 1. Introduction

This documentation is included with the current stable version of Privoxy, v.3.0.6.

## 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:

- 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", JavaScript and HTML annoyances, pop-up windows, header manipulation, 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.

- HTTP/1.1 compliant (but not all optional 1.1 features are supported).

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

- Improved cookie management features (e.g. session based cookies).

- GIF de-animation.

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

- Multi-threaded (POSIX and native threads).

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

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

- Improved signal handling, and a true daemon mode (Unix).

- Every feature now controllable on a per-site or per-location basis, configuration more powerful and versatile over-all.

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

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