> Using privoxy is necessary because > browsers leak your DNS requests when > they use a SOCKS proxy directly, > which is bad for your anonymity.
Firefox should in principle not use the DNS if network.proxy.socks_remote_dns is set to true (in about:config). > Privoxy also removes certain > dangerous headers from your web > requests, and blocks obnoxious ad > sites like Doubleclick. This is better done in the browser, for quite a few reasons, including the fact that there is no way a proxy can do that for SSL connections. Juliusz