10.6: Run Privoxy 3.0.16 on Snow Leopard

I really like browsing without all the flashy ads around, so I’ve been using the filtering-proxy Privoxy now for many years. But there is no longer support for Mac OS X, as there isn’t a maintainer for the Mac OS X port any more. MacPorts still has 3.0.12, which has some major bugs (timeouts), so I decided to build from source. Here’s how to get it run… First, get the source for Privoxy 3.0.16 from SourceForge ( 1.7MB direct download). Unpack the download somewhere, and make sure you have Xcode installed somewhere. Open Terminal and c…
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