Privoxy is free software; you can
- redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by
- the Free Software Foundation.
-
Privoxy is distributed in the hope
- that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
- implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- PURPOSE. See the license for details.
Privoxy is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
+ terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software
+ Foundation.
+
Privoxy is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
+ WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ license for details.
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 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.
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 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.