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File : $Source: /cvsroot/ijbswa/current/doc/source/history.sgml,v $
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Purpose : Entity included in other project documents.
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$Id: history.sgml,v 2.7 2009/02/22 11:05:21 fabiankeil Exp $
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Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
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See LICENSE.
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======================================================================
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This file used for inclusion with other documents only.
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======================================================================
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If you make changes to this file, please verify the finished
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docs all display as intended.
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This file is included into:
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user-manual
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developer-manual
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faq
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webserver/index.sgml
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-->
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<para>
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A long time ago, there was the
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<ulink url="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"><application>Internet Junkbuster</application></ulink>,
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by Anonymous Coders and <ulink url="http://www.junkbusters.com/">Junkbusters
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Corporation</ulink>. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
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web advertising and user tracking.
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</para>
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<para>
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But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
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forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
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for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the <application>Internet
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Junkbuster</application> did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
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(and is) the last official
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<ulink url="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release">release</ulink>
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available from <ulink url="http://www.junkbusters.com">Junkbusters Corporation</ulink>.
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Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
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<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GPL</ulink>,
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which allowed further development by others.
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</para>
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<para>
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So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
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software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
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It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
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version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
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original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
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flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
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from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.
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</para>
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<para>
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Then, some
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<ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS">developers</ulink>
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picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
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and then reassembled it, adding many
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<ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES">new
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features</ulink> along the way.
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</para>
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<para>
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The result of this is <application>Privoxy</application>, whose first
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stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
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<!-- Cautious!!!!!!!!! ;) -->
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</para>
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