The Internet Junkbuster is a
web proxy that can block
ads and
cookie
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s.
As of 2000 it functioned by checking requested URLs, including those for images, against a blocklist.
It was developed by the Junkbusters Corporation and released under the
GNU General Public License
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. However, the Internet Junkbuster has not been updated since 1998 and the junkbusters.com web site is no longer maintained.
Privoxy
Privoxy is a free non- caching web proxy with filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, manipulating cookies and modifying web page data and HTTP headers before the page is rendered by the browser. Privoxy is a "privacy enhancing proxy", fil ...
is an up-to-date filtering proxy based on the Junkbuster code, but it is much more powerful.
Junkbuster's developers at one point released Guidescope, a consumer version of Junkbuster.
Reception
A review by
InfoWorld
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in 2000 gave it a score of "Good" but criticized it for the technical knowledge needed to modify the blocklist by manually editing a .ini file.
See also
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Proxomitron
References
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External links
Official website
- proxy that shows the state of your Web surfing in realtime (based on Junkbuster, created in 2001)
Internet Protocol based network software
Privacy software