Using Privoxy with Tor to access iPlayer

Privoxy is an "Anonomiser" which stops your IP "leaking" to the Internet when you make a request.
Or it is a proxy in its own right - that runs on your computer.

Privoxy is only a part of the Vidalia package ("bundle") that contains Tor and Privoxy - you don't need to use Privoxy to circumvent the Geo-IP filtering used by the BBC, ITV and other Internet providers for content that is produced for a specific geographic location. AND, Privoxy is not a responsible for the GEOip circumvention - that is what Tor does.

Vidalia is a cross-platform controller GUI for the Tor software - If Privoxy is also used then you are somewhat "invisible" on the Internet.

Q & A

For more details on this section please see here

bbc iplayer privoxy 2010 - 9 Sep 2010, google.de
Unknown Keyword - 17 July 2010 - Visit from an Apple/Safari user - some sort of stealth used here as no request source recorded in server logs. Visitor also visited "how-to" request page and main iPlayer page.

The screen-shot (that was shown) below is what you see when you select "status" from the Privoxy Window. However, this was taken on a computer where the BBC iPlayer was being watched from Canada.

Unfortunately, Privoxy only has one error message. So no matter what went wrong, it will tell you "resolve failed".

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