This is my Privoxy configuration. It blocks common trackers and ads. NOTE: My configuration blocks Facebook. If you don't want this, comment out the following line in /usr/local/etc/privoxy/config: actionsfile block-facebook.action Installing on Mac OS X ====================== # Install Privoxy through Homebrew brew install privoxy # Move the original Privoxy configuration out of the way. mv /usr/local/etc/privoxy/ /usr/local/etc/orig.privoxy # Clone the new Privoxy configuration into /usr/local/etc/privoxy git clone git://github.com/fdb/privoxy-config.git /usr/local/etc/privoxy # Copy the launch agent script to the global launch agents. sudo cp /usr/local/etc/privoxy/launch-agent/org.privoxy.privoxy.plist /Library/LaunchAgents/ # Change the user permissions to root (Otherwise the script will not load) sudo chown root:wheel /Library/LaunchAgents/org.privoxy.privoxy.plist # Load and start the script now. launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/org.privoxy.privoxy.plist launchctl start org.privoxy.privoxy