Privoxy is free software; you can - redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public - - License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the - License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program 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 GNU General Public License for - more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59 - Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License - along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., - 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
Privoxy is evolved, and derived from, - the Internet Junkbuster, with many - improvments and enhancements over the original.
Junkbuster was originally written by Anonymous - Coders and Junkbusters - 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 ;-).
Copyright © 2001-2013 by Privoxy Developers <ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous + Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the GNU General Public License.
+ +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.
+ +This program 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 GNU General Public License for + details.
+ +You should have received a copy of the GNU + GPL along with this program; if not, write to the
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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.
+Current Privoxy Team:
+ +
+ Fabian Keil, lead developer
+ David Schmidt, developer
+ Hal Burgiss
+ Lee Rian
+ Roland Rosenfeld
+ Ian Silvester
Former Privoxy Team Members:
+ + Johny Agotnes
+ Rodrigo Barbosa
+ Moritz Barsnick
+ Ian Cummings
+ Brian Dessent
+ Jon Foster
+ Karsten Hopp
+ Alexander Lazic
+ Daniel Leite
+ Gábor Lipták
+ Adam Lock
+ Guy Laroche
+ Justin McMurtry
+ Mark Miller
+ Gerry Murphy
+ Andreas Oesterhelt
+ Haroon Rafique
+ Georg Sauthoff
+ Thomas Steudten
+ Jörg Strohmayer
+ Rodney Stromlund
+ Sviatoslav Sviridov
+ Sarantis Paskalis
+ Stefan Waldherr
Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, + provided patches, made suggestions or contributed in some way. These + include (in alphabetical order):
+ + Ken Arromdee
+ Devin Bayer
+ Havard Berland
+ David Bo
+ Gergely Bor
+ Francois Botha
+ Reiner Buehl
+ Andrew J. Caines
+ Clifford Caoile
+ Wan-Teh Chang
+ Ramkumar Chinchani
+ Billy Crook
+ Frédéric Crozat
+ Michael T. Davis
+ Markus Dittrich
+ Mattes Dolak
+ Matthias Drochner
+ Peter E.
+ Florian Effenberger
+ Markus Elfring
+ Ryan Farmer
+ Matthew Fischer
+ Dean Gaudet
+ Stephen Gildea
+ Lizik Grelier
+ Daniel Griscom
+ Felix Gröbert
+ Jeff H.
+ Tim H.
+ Aaron Hamid
+ Darel Henman
+ Magnus Holmgren
+ Eric M. Hopper
+ Ralf Horstmann
+ Stefan Huehner
+ Peter Hyman
+ Derek Jennings
+ Andrew Jones
+ Julien Joubert
+ Petr Kadlec
+ Steven Kolins
+ Zeno Kugy
+ David Laight
+ Bert van Leeuwen
+ Don Libes
+ Paul Lieverse
+ Han Liu
+ Toby Lyward
+ Wil Mahan
+ Jindrich Makovicka
+ Raphael Marichez
+ Francois Marier
+ Angelina Matson
+ David Mediavilla
+ Raphael Moll
+ Amuro Namie
+ Adam Piggott
+ Petr Písar
+ Dan Price
+ Roberto Ragusa
+ Félix Rauch
+ Maynard Riley
+ Andreas Rutkauskas
+ Bart Schelstraete
+ Chung-chieh Shan
+ Simon South
+ Dan Stahlke
+ Oliver Stoeneberg
+ Rick Sykes
+ Spinor S.
+ Peter Thoenen
+ Martin Thomas
+ Bobby G. Vinyard
+ Jochen Voss
+ Glenn Washburn
+ Song Weijia
+ Jörg Weinmann
+ Darren Wiebe
+ Anduin Withers
+ Oliver Yeoh
+ Jamie Zawinski
Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by Junkbusters + Corp. and Anonymous Coders.
+ +Privoxy heavily relies on Philip Hazel's PCRE.
+ +The code to filter compressed content makes use of zlib which is + written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
+ +On systems that lack snprintf(), Privoxy is using a version written + by Mark Martinec. On systems that lack strptime(), Privoxy is using the + one from the GNU C Library written by Ulrich Drepper.
+