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80 >9. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
83 > Copyright © 2001-2009 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
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91 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
92 and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
109 > is free software; you can
110 redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
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115 as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
117 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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134 > Free Software<br>
135 Foundation, Inc. <SPAN
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164 > A long time ago, there was the
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170 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
173 by Anonymous Coders and <A
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178 >. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
179 web advertising and user tracking.</P
181 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
182 forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
183 for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
187 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
188 (and is) the last official
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199 Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
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205 which allowed further development by others.</P
207 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
208 software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
209 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
210 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
211 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
212 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
213 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
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221 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
222 and then reassembled it, adding many
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230 > The result of this is <SPAN
234 stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
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