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27 In the beginning, there was the
28 <ulink url="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"><application>Internet Junkbuster</application></ulink>,
29 by Anonymous Coders and <ulink url="http://www.junkbusters.com/">Junkbusters
30 Corporation</ulink>. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
31 web advertising and user tracking.
35 But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
36 forcing users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
37 for spying on them, kept evolving. Unfortunately, the <application>Internet
38 Junkbuster</application> did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
39 (and is) the last official
40 <ulink url="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release">release</ulink>
41 available from <ulink url="http://www.junkbusters.com">Junkbusters Corporation</ulink>.
42 Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
43 <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"> GPL</ulink>, which allowed further
44 development by others.
48 So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
49 <ulink url="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/">improved version of the
50 software</ulink>, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
51 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
52 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
53 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
54 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
55 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.
60 <ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS">developers</ulink>
61 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
62 and then reassembled it, adding many
63 <ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES">new
64 features</ulink> along the way.
68 The result of this is <application>Privoxy</application>, whose first
69 stable release, 3.0, is due in May 2002.