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- License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
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, 59
- Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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 Junkbuster was originally written by Anonymous
- Coders and Internet
+ Junkbuster did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
+ (and is) the last official
+ release
+ available from Junkbusters
- Corporation, and was released as free open-source software under the
- GNU GPL. 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
+ Stefan
- Waldherr made many improvements, and started the developers
+ picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
+ and then reassembled it, adding many
+ SourceForge project
- Privoxy to rekindle development. There are now several active
- developers contributing. The last stable release of
- new
+ features along the way.
The result of this is Junkbuster was v2.0.2, which has now
- grown whiskers ;-).
Privoxy, whose first
+ stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
+
Fabian Keil, lead developer
+ David Schmidt, developer
+
+ Hal Burgiss
+ Mark Miller
+ Gerry Murphy
+ Lee Rian
+ Roland Rosenfeld
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
+ 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
+ Gergely Bor
+ Francois Botha
+ Reiner Buehl
+ Andrew J. Caines
+ Clifford Caoile
+ Wan-Teh Chang
+ Frédéric Crozat
+ Michael T. Davis
+ Mattes Dolak
+ Matthias Drochner
+ Peter E.
+ Florian Effenberger
+ Markus Elfring
+ Dean Gaudet
+ Stephen Gildea
+ Daniel Griscom
+ Felix Gröbert
+ Jeff H.
+ Aaron Hamid
+ Darel Henman
+ Magnus Holmgren
+ Eric M. Hopper
+ Ralf Horstmann
+ Stefan Huehner
+ Peter Hyman
+ Derek Jennings
+ Petr Kadlec
+ David Laight
+ Bert van Leeuwen
+ Don Libes
+ Paul Lieverse
+ Toby Lyward
+ Wil Mahan
+ Jindrich Makovicka
+ Francois Marier
+ David Mediavilla
+ Raphael Moll
+ Amuro Namie
+ Adam Piggott
+ Petr Písar
+ Dan Price
+ Roberto Ragusa
+ Félix Rauch
+ Maynard Riley
+ Chung-chieh Shan
+ Spinor S.
+ Bart Schelstraete
+ Oliver Stoeneberg
+ 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.