Copyright © 2001 - 2007 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 - - more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, -51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, 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. 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
- Boston, MA 02110-1301
- USA
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 - (and is) 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. -
Current Privoxy Team:
Fabian Keil, developer
- David Schmidt, developer
-
- Hal Burgiss
- Ian Cummings
- Justin McMurtry
- Roland Rosenfeld
Former Privoxy Team Members:
Johny Agotnes
- Rodrigo Barbosa
- Moritz Barsnick
- Brian Dessent
- Jon Foster
- Karsten Hopp
- Alexander Lazic
- Daniel Leite
- Gábor Lipták
- Adam Lock
- Guy Laroche
- Mark Martinec
- Andreas Oesterhelt
- Haroon Rafique
- Georg Sauthoff
- Thomas Steudten
- Joerg 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
- Reiner Buehl
- Gergely Bor
- Andrew J. Caines
- Clifford Caoile
- Frédéric Crozat
- Michael T. Davis
- Mattes Dolak
- Peter E
- Florian Effenberger
- Markus Elfring
- Dean Gaudet
- Stephen Gildea
- Daniel Griscom
- Felix Gröbert
- Aaron Hamid
- Darel Henman
- Magnus Holmgren
- Peter Hyman
- Derek Jennings
- Petr Kadlec
- David Laight
- Don Libes
- Paul Lieverse
- Toby Lyward
- Wil Mahan
- Jindrich Makovicka
- David Mediavilla
- Raphael Moll
- Adam Piggott
- Roberto Ragusa
- Félix Rauch
- Maynard Riley
- Chung-chieh Shan
- Spinor S
- Bart Schelstraete
- Oliver Stoeneberg
- Peter Thoenen
- Martin Thomas
- Bobby G. Vinyard
- Jörg Weinmann
- Darren Wiebe
- Anduin Withers
- Oliver Yeoh
- Jamie Zawinski
Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by:
Junkbusters Corp.
- Anonymous Coders
- Ulrich Drepper (strptime fallback)
- Philip Hazel (PCRE)
Copyright © 2001-2019 by Privoxy Developers <privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org>
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 and included in the next section.
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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
+ Lee Rian
+ Roland Rosenfeld
+ Ian Silvester
Former Privoxy Team Members:
+ Johny Agotnes
+ Rodrigo Barbosa
+ Moritz Barsnick
+ Hal Burgiss
+ 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, donated + or contributed in some other way. These include (in alphabetical order):
+ Rustam Abdullaev
+ Clint Adams
+ Anatoly Arzhnikov
+ Ken Arromdee
+ Natxo Asenjo
+ Devin Bayer
+ Havard Berland
+ David Binderman
+ David Bo
+ Gergely Bor
+ Francois Botha
+ Reiner Buehl
+ Andrew J. Caines
+ Clifford Caoile
+ Edward Carrel
+ Pak Chan
+ Wan-Teh Chang
+ Sam Chen
+ Ramkumar Chinchani
+ Billy Crook
+ Frédéric Crozat
+ Matthew Daley
+ Michael T. Davis
+ Markus Dittrich
+ Mattes Dolak
+ Matthias Drochner
+ Peter E.
+ Florian Effenberger
+ Markus Elfring
+ Ryan Farmer
+ Matthew Fischer
+ Dean Gaudet
+ Stephen Gildea
+ John McGowan
+ Danny Goossen
+ Lizik Grelier
+ Daniel Griscom
+ Felix Gröbert
+ Bernard Guillot
+ Jeff H.
+ Tim H.
+ Aaron Hamid
+ Darel Henman
+ Magnus Holmgren
+ Eric M. Hopper
+ Ralf Horstmann
+ Nedžad Hrnjica
+ Stefan Huehner
+ Basil Hussain
+ Peter Hyman
+ Derek Jennings
+ Andrew Jones
+ Julien Joubert
+ Ralf Jungblut
+ Petr Kadlec
+ Robert Klemme
+ Steven Kolins
+ Korda
+ Stefan Kurtz
+ 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
+ Jonathan McKenzie
+ David Mediavilla
+ Raphael Moll
+ J. Momberger
+ Mathew Murphy
+ Amuro Namie
+ Mark Nelson
+ Tobias Netzel
+ Adam Piggott
+ Petr Písar
+ Dan Price
+ Roberto Ragusa
+ Félix Rauch
+ Kai Raven
+ Marvin Renich
+ Chris John Riley
+ Maynard Riley
+ Ivan Romanov
+ Andreas Rutkauskas
+ Sam
+ Bart Schelstraete
+ Gregory Seidman
+ Atman Sense
+ Chung-chieh Shan
+ Johan Sintorn
+ Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler
+ DRS David Soft
+ Simon South
+ Dan Stahlke
+ Oliver Stoeneberg
+ Václav Švec
+ Rick Sykes
+ Spinor S.
+ Peter Thoenen
+ Marc Thomas
+ Martin Thomas
+ Reuben Thomas
+ Guybrush Threepwood
+ Joel Verhagen
+ Bobby G. Vinyard
+ Jochen Voss
+ David Wagner
+ Glenn Washburn
+ Song Weijia
+ Jörg Weinmann
+ Darren Wiebe
+ Anduin Withers
+ Eduard Wulff
+ Yang Xia
+ Jarry Xu
+ Oliver Yeoh
+ Yossi Zahn
+ 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.
+