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+ $Id: history.sgml,v 2.8 2011/09/04 11:10:12 fabiankeil Exp $
Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
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<para>
- A long time ago, 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>. This 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>
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
- (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>.
+ the last official release, available from Junkbusters Corporation.
Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GPL</ulink>,
which allowed further development by others.
stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
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</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>