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- $Id: history.sgml,v 1.5 2002/05/10 01:48:20 hal9 Exp $
+ $Id: history.sgml,v 2.5 2006/09/22 01:27:55 hal9 Exp $
- Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Privoxy Developers <developers@privoxy.org>
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Privoxy Developers http://privoxy.org
See LICENSE.
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<para>
- In the beginning, there was the
+ A long time ago, 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
+ Corporation</ulink>. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
web advertising and user tracking.
</para>
<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
+ 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
(and is) the last official
<ulink url="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release">release</ulink>
<para>
The result of this is <application>Privoxy</application>, whose first
- stable release, 3.0, is due in May 2002.
+ stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
+ <!-- Cautious!!!!!!!!! ;) -->
</para>