Description of problem:

Could you modify the privoxy specfile so that it runs configure with the --enable-zlib option and rebuild the privoxy package?  It seems to make a significant difference for the better.

The current privoxy-3.0.16-2 RPM seems to be having trouble with many web sites: it causes web access to be very slow on some sites (the browser just hangs, but does not display the page).  When this happens, I observe the following messages spewed in /var/log/privoxy/logfile:

Info: Compressed content detected, content filtering disabled. Consider recompiling Privoxy with zlib support or enable the prevent-compression action.

This seems to affect high-volume sites like nytimes.com, amazon.com, etc.

So, I downloaded the privoxy-3.0.16-2 source RPM, and modified the spec file to compile with "configure --enable-zlib".  After that change, all the problems went away, and web access is snappy again.  With this change, everything seems to work fine for me.  Therefore, I suggest modifying the privoxy spec file for the standard privoxy RPM.  It's a simple one-line change to the spec file:

-%configure
+%configure --enable-zlib