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 <!--

- File        :  $Source: /cvsroot/ijbswa/current/doc/source/history.sgml,v $
+ File        :  doc/source/history.sgml

 
  Purpose     :  Entity included in other project documents.
 
  Purpose     :  Entity included in other project documents.

-                
- $Id: history.sgml,v 1.7.2.2 2002/07/30 20:04:31 hal9 Exp $

 
 

-  Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Privoxy Developers <developers@privoxy.org>
-  See LICENSE.
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2018 Privoxy Developers https://www.privoxy.org/
+ See LICENSE.

 
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- If you make changes to this file, please verify the finished 
+ If you make changes to this file, please verify the finished

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 -->
 
 <para>
 -->
 
 <para>

- In the beginning, 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
- web advertising and user tracking.
+ A long time ago, there was the <application>Internet Junkbuster</application>,
+ by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation. 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
 </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
- 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>
- available from <ulink url="http://www.junkbusters.com">Junkbusters Corporation</ulink>.
+ 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
+ the last official release, available from Junkbusters Corporation.

  Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
  Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU

- <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"> GPL</ulink>, which allowed further
- development by others.
+ <ulink url="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GPL</ulink>,
+ which allowed further development by others.

 </para>
 
 <para>
 </para>
 
 <para>

- So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
- <ulink url="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/">improved version of the
- software</ulink>, 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,
  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 @@
 
 <para>
  Then, some
 
 <para>
  Then, some

- <ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS">developers</ulink>
+ <ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS">developers</ulink>

  picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
  and then reassembled it, adding many
  picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
  and then reassembled it, adding many

- <ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES">new
+ <ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES">new

  features</ulink> along the way.
 </para>
 
 <para>
  The result of this is <application>Privoxy</application>, whose first
  features</ulink> along the way.
 </para>
 
 <para>
  The result of this is <application>Privoxy</application>, whose first

- stable release, 3.0, is due late summer or early fall 2002. 
+ stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.

  <!-- Cautious!!!!!!!!! ;) -->
 </para>
 
  <!-- Cautious!!!!!!!!! ;) -->
 </para>
 

+<para>
+ As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website (http://www.junkbusters.com/)
+ has been shut down, but Privoxy is still actively maintained.
+</para>