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<para>
- In the beginning, there was the
- <ulink url="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"><application>Internet Junkbuster</application></ulink>,
- by Anonymous Coders and <ulink url="http://www.junkbusters.com/">Junkbusters
- Corporation</ulink>. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
- web advertising and user tracking.
+ A long time ago, there was the <application>Internet Junkbuster</application>,
+ by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation. This saved many users a lot of
+ pain in the early days of web advertising and user tracking.
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<para>
But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
- forcing users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
- for spying on them, kept evolving. Unfortunately, the <application>Internet
- Junkbuster</application> did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
- (and is) the last official
- <ulink url="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release">release</ulink>
- available from <ulink url="http://www.junkbusters.com">Junkbusters Corporation</ulink>.
+ forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
+ for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the <application>Internet
+ Junkbuster</application> did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
+ the last official release, available from Junkbusters Corporation.
Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
- <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"> GPL</ulink>, which allowed further
- development by others.
+ <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GPL</ulink>,
+ which allowed further development by others.
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- So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
- <ulink url="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/">improved version of the
- software</ulink>, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
+ So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
+ software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
<para>
The result of this is <application>Privoxy</application>, whose first
- stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
+ stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
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+<para>
+ As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website (http://www.junkbusters.com/)
+ has been shut down, but Privoxy is still actively maintained.
+</para>