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- In the beginning, there was the
- Internet Junkbuster,
- by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters
- Corporation. 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 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.
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 Internet
- Junkbuster did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
- (and is) the last official
- release
- available from Junkbusters Corporation.
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ 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,
@@ -58,16 +51,20 @@
Then, some
- developers
+ developers
picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
and then reassembled it, adding many
- new
+ new
features along the way.
The result of this is Privoxy, whose first
- stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
+ 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.
+