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73 >7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
76 > Copyright © 2001-2017 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
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84 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
85 and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
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116 > is free software; you can
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128 it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
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148 > A long time ago, there was the <SPAN
150 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
152 by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation. This saved many users a lot of
153 pain in the early days of web advertising and user tracking.</P
155 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
156 forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
157 for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
161 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
162 the last official release, available from Junkbusters Corporation.
163 Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
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169 which allowed further development by others.</P
171 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
172 software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
173 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
174 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
175 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
176 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
177 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
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185 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
186 and then reassembled it, adding many
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198 stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
201 > As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website (http://www.junkbusters.com/)
202 has been shut down, but Privoxy is still actively maintained.</P
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