What is this new version of “Junkbuster”?
383 384 A long time ago, there was the Internet Junkbuster, by Anonymous Coders 385 and Junkbusters Corporation. This saved many users a lot of pain in the 386 early days of web advertising and user tracking. 387 388 But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for 389 forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and for 390 tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the Internet Junkbuster did 391 not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was (and is) the last official 392 release available from Junkbusters Corporation. Fortunately, it had been 393 released under the GNU GPL, which allowed further development by others. 394 395 So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the 396 software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches. It 397 could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first 398 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the 399 original, with all its lim
A long time ago, there was the Internet Junkbuster, by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation. This 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 ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and for tracking them, keeps 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 co
