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- $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.81 2011/09/04 11:10:12 fabiankeil Exp $
+ $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.94 2013/06/21 14:46:46 fabiankeil Exp $
Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
</subscript>
</pubdate>
-<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.81 2011/09/04 11:10:12 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.94 2013/06/21 14:46:46 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
<!--
<title id="whyprivoxy">Why <quote>Privoxy</quote>? Why change the name from
Junkbuster at all?</title>
<para>
- Though outdated, <ulink url="http://junkbusters.com/">Junkbusters Corporation</ulink>
- continues to offer their original version of the <application>Internet
- Junkbuster</application>, so publishing our
- <application> Junkbuster</application>-derived software under the same name
- led to confusion.
+ Though outdated, Junkbusters Corporation continued to offer their original
+ version of the <application>Internet Junkbuster</application> for a while,
+ so publishing our <application> Junkbuster</application>-derived software
+ under the same name would have led to confusion.
</para>
<para>
- There are also potential legal complications from our use of the
- <application>Junkbuster</application> name, which is a registered trademark of
- <ulink url="http://junkbusters.com/">Junkbusters Corporation</ulink>.
- There are, however, no objections from Junkbusters Corporation to the
- <application>Privoxy</application> project itself, and they, in fact, still
- share our ideals and goals.
+ There were also potential legal reasons not to use the
+ <application>Junkbuster</application> name, as it was (and maybe still is)
+ a registered trademark of Junkbusters Corporation.
+ There were, however, no objections from Junkbusters Corporation to the
+ <application>Privoxy</application> project itself, and they, in fact,
+ shared our ideals and goals.
</para>
<para>
- The developers also believed that there are so many improvements over the original
- code, that it was time to make a clean break from the past and make
- a name in their own right.
+ The Privoxy developers also believed that there were so many improvements
+ over the original code, that it was time to make a clean break from the past
+ and make a name in their own right.
</para>
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application> is the
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application> picks up where
<application>Junkbuster</application> left off.
-
The new <application>Privoxy</application> still blocks ads and banners,
+ <application>Privoxy</application> still blocks ads and banners,
still manages <ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie">cookies</ulink>, and still
helps protect your privacy. But, most of these features have been enhanced,
</para>
<para>
If you intend to help out with the trackers, you also might want to <ulink
- url="https://sourceforge.net/account/register.php">get an account on SourceForge.net</ulink>
+ url="https://sourceforge.net/user/registration">get an account on SourceForge.net</ulink>
so we don't confuse you with the other name-less users.
</para>
<para>
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application> is developed by unpaid volunteers
and thus our current running costs are pretty low. Nevertheless, we
- have plans that will cost money in the future. We would like to get
- this money through donations made by our users.
+ have plans that will cost money in the future. They include,
+ but aren't limited to spending money on:
+
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Hardware to help make sure <application>Privoxy</application>
+ keeps running on platforms the developers currently can't test
+ on and can be ported to others.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Technical books to educate our developers about said platforms
+ or to improve their knowledge in general.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ More reliable hosting,
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ We would like to get this money through donations made by our users.
</para>
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application> has therefore become an associated
- project of <ulink url="http://www.spi-inc.org/about-spi/about-spi">Software
+ project of <ulink url="http://www.spi-inc.org/">Software
in the Public Interest (SPI)</ulink>, which allows us to receive donations.
In the United States they are tax-deductible, in a few other western countries
they might be tax-deductible in the future.
</para>
<para>
- We intend to use the donations to pay for our domain after transferring
- it to SPI. Our goal is to make sure there's no single point of failure
- and the bill gets paid and the site keeps running even if a some of
- the currently active developers were to suddenly disappear for a while.
-</para>
-
-<para>
- We would also like to spend some money on more reliable hosting,
- on hardware to help make sure <application>Privoxy</application>
- keeps running on platforms the developers currently can't test on,
- and on technical books to educate our developers about said platforms
- or to improve their knowledge in general.
+ If you read this section before you may notice that paying for the
+ project domain privoxy.org is no longer on the list. It has been
+ transferred to SPI is sponsored by Mythic Beasts Ltd.
</para>
<para>
If you enjoy our software and feel like helping out with a donation,
please have a look at
<ulink url="http://www.spi-inc.org/donations">SPI's donation page</ulink>
- to see what the options are.
+ to see what the options are. If you have any questions regarding donations
+ please mail to either the public user mailing list or, if it's a private
+ matter, to <ulink url="mailto:fk@fabiankeil.de">Fabian Keil</ulink>
+ (Privoxy's SPI liason) directly.
</para>
</sect3>
<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="difficult">
<title>Why is the configuration so complicated?</title>
<para>
- <quote>Complicated</quote> is in the eye of the beholder. Those that are
- familiar with some of the underlying concepts, such as regular expression
- syntax, take to it like a fish takes to water. Also, software that tries
- hard to be <quote>user friendly</quote>, often lacks sophistication and
- flexibility. There is always that trade-off there between power vs.
- easy-of-use. Furthermore, anyone is welcome to contribute ideas and
- implementations to enhance &my-app;.
+ <quote>Complicated</quote> is in the eye of the beholder.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Privoxy is currently mainly written by and for people who are already
+ familiar with the underlying concepts like regular expressions, HTTP and HTML,
+ or are willing to become familiar with them to be able to get the most
+ out of a powerful and flexible tool such as Privoxy.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ While everybody is expected to be able to get a Privoxy default installation
+ up and running, fine-tuning requires a certain amount of background
+ information and Privoxy's documentation mainly concentrates on the
+ Privoxy-specific parts while only providing references to the rest.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If you or anyone you know has the skills, time and energy to
+ reduce the barrier of entry, please <link linkend="participate">get involved</link>.
</para>
</sect2>
messages.
</para>
-<![%p-newstuff;[
<para>
Since <application>Privoxy</application> 3.0.5, its
<ulink url="../user-manual/config.html">main configuration file</ulink>
</para>
<para>
Save the modified configuration file and open
- <ulink url="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status/</ulink>
+ <ulink url="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</ulink>
in your browser, confirm that <application>Privoxy</application> has reloaded its configuration
and that there are no other forward lines, unless you know that you need them. If everything looks good,
refer to
what <application>Tor</application> does, why it is no replacement for
application level security, and why you probably don't want to
use it for unencrypted logins.
-</para> ]]>
+</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 renderas="sect3">
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
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+Link to the SPI homepage instead of the "About SPI" page which no longer exists
+
+Reported by Mark Nelson in #3614557.
+
+Revision 2.93 2013/06/21 14:46:09 fabiankeil
+Update link to the SF registration form
+
+Reported by Mark Nelson in #3614557.
+
+Revision 2.92 2013/03/01 17:44:24 fabiankeil
+Bump entities for 3.0.21 stable
+
+Revision 2.91 2013/02/26 15:09:35 fabiankeil
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+
+Revision 2.90 2013/01/06 11:25:52 fabiankeil
+Set entities to 3.0.20 beta
+
+Revision 2.89 2012/06/19 12:49:48 fabiankeil
+Update Junkbuster-related FAQ sections
+
+Remove the dead links and use the past tense as
+the fork happened years ago.
+
+Revision 2.88 2012/04/22 12:16:24 fabiankeil
+Remove an obsolete newstuff marker
+
+Revision 2.87 2012/04/22 12:16:09 fabiankeil
+Fix an URL in the "Privoxy with Tor" FAQ
+
+Revision 2.86 2012/03/18 15:41:49 fabiankeil
+Bump entities to 3.0.20 UNRELEASED
+
+Revision 2.85 2011/12/26 17:05:40 fabiankeil
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+
+Revision 2.84 2011/11/13 17:03:54 fabiankeil
+Bump entities for 3.0.18 stable
+
+Revision 2.83 2011/11/13 16:53:24 fabiankeil
+Rephrase the donations section some more
+
+Mention that the domain is now sponsored by Mythic Beasts Ltd
+and make it clear that asking questions about donations is
+possible, too.
+
+Revision 2.82 2011/11/13 16:50:34 fabiankeil
+Note that donations for Privoxy are currently only tax-deductible in the US
+
+As it turns out tax-deductible donations in a few other western
+countries are theoretically possible through partner organizations
+but aren't available out of the box.
+
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