A few weeks ago I noticed that some scripts I was playing with weren’t actually using tor even though I was proxy’ing through privoxy. Turns out that when you apt-get install tor/privoxy (at least on stable, ok) it doesn’t actually enable tor via privoxy. The fix is a simple addition to:

/etc/privoxy/config:

forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .

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