Barre / privaxy

Privaxy is the next generation tracker and advertisement blocker. It blocks ads and trackers by MITMing HTTP(s) traffic.

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Failing to start on Ubuntu

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(privaxy:6458): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:07:28.418: cannot open display:

Do you have an X server running?
Are you intending to use privaxy on an headless machine?

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what's an X server?
headless, you mean with no interface? If yes, then yes.

what's an X server?

https://x.org/wiki/

headless, you mean with no interface? If yes, then yes.

Then, you need to download a "nogui" version https://github.com/Barre/privaxy/releases/tag/v0.5.2