It is basically a condom for the Internet. It makes maintenance for family computers much easier.
I was using the Internet Junkbuster (and later: Privoxy) in the mid-90s, many years before that. https://web.archive.org/web/19961222061917/http://www.junkbu...
Of course, back then you could just disable javascript in your web browser to protect yourself from malicious sites and annyances, and practically all sites would work perfectly fine.
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It is basically a condom for the Internet. It makes maintenance for family computers much easier.