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- Privoxy is evolved, and derived from,
- the Internet Junkbuster, with many
- improvments and enhancements over the original.
+ A long time ago, there was the Internet Junkbuster,
+ by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation. This saved many users a lot of
+ pain in the early days of web advertising and user tracking.
- Junkbuster was originally written by Anonymous
- Coders and Junkbuster's
- Corporation, and was released as free open-source software under the
- GNU GPL. Stefan
- Waldherr made many improvements, and started the SourceForge project
- Privoxy to rekindle development. There are now several active
- developers contributing. The last stable release of
- Junkbuster was v2.0.2, which has now
- grown whiskers ;-).
+ But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
+ forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
+ for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the Internet
+ Junkbuster 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
+ GPL,
+ which allowed further development by others.
+
+ 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,
+ flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
+ from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.
+
+
+ Then, some
+ developers
+ picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
+ and then reassembled it, adding many
+ new
+ features along the way.
+
+
+
+ The result of this is Privoxy, whose first
+ stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
+
+
+
+
+ As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website (http://www.junkbusters.com/)
+ has been shut down, but Privoxy is still actively maintained.
+