Copyright © 2001 - 2004 by Privoxy Developers <developers@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.
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In the beginning, there was the Internet Junkbuster, by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation. It 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 users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and for spying on them, kept 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 Developement Team:
Hal Burgiss (docs)
Andreas Oesterhelt
David Schmidt (OS/2, Mac OSX ports)
Current and Former Project Contributors:
Johny Agotnes
Rodrigo Barbosa (RPM specfiles)
Moritz Barsnick
Brian Dessent
Mattes Dolak
Jon Foster
Karsten Hopp (Red Hat)
Alexander Lazic
Daniel Leite
Gábor Lipták
Adam Lock (Win32)
Guy Laroche
Haroon Rafique
Roland Rosenfeld (Debian)
Georg Sauthoff (Gentoo)
Thomas Steudten
Joerg Strohmayer (Amiga)
Rodney Stromlund
Sviatoslav Sviridov
Sarantis Paskalis
Stefan Waldherr
Based in part on code originally developed by:
Junkbusters Corp.
Anonymous Coders
Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, or made suggestions. These include (in alphabetical order):
Ken Arromdee
Devin Bayer
Reiner Buehl
Andrew J. Caines
Clifford Caoile
Michael T. Davis
Brian Dessent
Peter E
Aaron Hamid
Magnus Holmgren
Don Libes
Paul Lieverse
David Mediavilla
Oliver Stoeneberg
Roberto Ragusa
Maynard Riley
Bart Schelstraete
Darren Wiebe
Jamie Zawinski