just to demonstrate:

$ ps ax|grep privo
 1518 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/privoxy --pidfile /var/run/privoxy.pid 
--user privoxy /etc/privoxy/config
 2538 pts/2    R+     0:00 grep --color=auto privo
$ echo $http_proxy
http://127.0.0.1:8118/
$ host www.debian.org
www.debian.org has address 206.12.19.7
www.debian.org has address 128.31.0.51
$ lynx http://www.debian.org

Looking up 127.0.0.1:8118
Making HTTP connection to 127.0.0.1:8118
Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.

lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.debian.org/
$ unset http_proxy
$ lynx http://www.debian.org # loads page!
$ sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy restart
[sudo] password for ulf: 
 * Restarting filtering proxy server privoxy                                    
                                                          [ OK ] 
$ export http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118/
$ lynx http://www.debian.org  # loads page!

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privoxy does not access sites via network-manager established GSM modem 
connections without being restarted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/577441
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