Internet Junkbuster
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The Internet Junkbuster is a web proxy that can block ads
ADS
ADS or Ads may refer to:In computing:* Advanced Design System, an EDA tool from Agilent EEsof EDA* Advantage Database Server, a Relational Database Management System* Alternate data stream, a filesystem fork in Microsoft NTFS...

 and cookie
HTTP cookie
A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is used for an origin website to send state information to a user's browser and for the browser to return the state information to the origin site...

s. It was developed by the Junkbusters Corporation and released under the GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

. However, the Internet Junkbuster hasn't been updated since 1998 and the junkbusters.com web site is no longer maintained.

Privoxy
Privoxy
Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers before the page is rendered by the browser. Privoxy is a "privacy enhancing proxy", filtering Web pages and removing advertisements...

 is an up-to-date filtering proxy based on the Junkbuster code, but it is much more powerful. See also the Proxomitron
Proxomitron
Proxomitron, the Universal Web Filter, is a filtering web proxy written by Scott R. Lemmon. This program was originally designed to run under Windows 95....

, a Windows-based web filter.

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