Media Coverage of JUNKBUSTERS

  Recent mentions in the media

The Washington Post described us as ``a valuable online resource for information on fighting junk faxes, junk mail, spam and other intrusions.'' (2005/9/25, p. F05) [More on us from the Post] This was also picked up by the Kansas City Star. (2005/10/4)

  Awards, Picks and Celebrity Recommendations

We are proud to have been honored by many awards, but regret that we must decline awards that would require us to display a graphic logo on our home page.

1. The New York Civil Liberties Union honored Junkbusters and its President, Jason Catlett, with its 2000 Joseph Callaway Award for protection of the right to privacy, particularly for campaigns against privacy-threatening practices of Intel and DoubleClick.
2. Senator John McCain had kind words for us in a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee, which he chaired. (2000/5/25)
3. Our President was given a ``Hero of the Revolution Award'' by PrivacyPlace. (2000/6)
4. Our content is rated ``five stars'' by Luckman's Best of the Web, their top rating.
5. Our spam news and advice were recommended in Beatrice's Web Guide.
6. We were Hot site of the week at sharewarejunkies. (1998/6/22) We were rated three stars in Yahoo's Internet Beginner's guide.
7. The San Jose Mercury News's Minister of Information particularly liked our Anti-Telemarketing Script. (1998/5/8)
8. ZDNet's Webopaedia says ``Junkbusters offers a wealth of free advice on how to stop telemarketers, direct mailers, and junk faxers in their tracks...'
9. Allentown's Morning Call called us ``one of the Net's more informative, consumer-oriented Web sites'' in a story on filtering that ran in the Augusta Chronicle (1998/4/12) the Salt Lake Tribune (1998/5/15) and the Japan Times.
10. James Gleick, author of Chaos, Faster, and of a biography of Richard Feynman, singles out our site as one he highly recommends in a postscript to a New York Times Magazine article titled Hold the Spam.
11. The New York State Attorney General recommended our site to parents in a warning about Internet Privacy Invasions.
12. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Pollution Prevention recommends our site in their Fact Sheet on how to reduce junk mail.
13. Michigan's Office of Policy and Legislative Affairs lists us among resources in a page about a State bill restricting telemarketing.
14. The Sydney Morning Herald recommended our page for organizations in their Useful Sites and Downloads. (1997/8/26) They also mentioned our Internet Junkbuster in One zap and their history. (1998/4/11) They recommended our links page in a story on spam (1998/10/17) They also mentioned us in an extensive story on privacy. (1999/8/14)
15. We were site of the day at http://www.toocool.com (1997/6/6)
16. We were picked as Cool Site of the week by Waypoint Communications. (1997/6/2)
17. Apple's Internet Connection picked us as Cool Site of the Week (1997/5/27)
18. New Zealand's Mac's Picks of the Week included us. (1997/5/27)
19. We were nominated cool site of the day by Cadvision (1997/5/20) and InternetGo (1997/10)
20. We were picked by radio syndicate Rock Daily for our Anti-telemarketing script. (1997/5/2)
21. We were a Spotlight site on NetGuide Live (``Your daily guide to the Net.'') Reviewer Steven Horn praised both our Anti-Telemarketing Script and JUNKBUSTERS DECLARE, adding ``Also from Junkbusters is a comprehensive list of resources for combating junk, a treatise on protecting your privacy from direct marketers, and a frequently updated news section. In an age when seemingly everyone is out to make a buck on the Net, it's refreshing to note that all of Junkbusters' services are free.'' (1997/3/6)
22. Our web site design was awarded a Simpliciter honor for ``Excellence Without Excess,'' which is granted to sites that have ``succeeded in creating profound, informative, intelligent and entertaining pages without the use of those extraneous graphic devices that so many pages are steeped in.'' Their specific comment on us: ``...if ever there was a Web site that filled a need, this is it.'' (1996/11/20)
23. Netsurfer Digest (``More signal, less noise'') included a description of our site under the heading ``Junk the junk mail.'' (1996/10/11)
24. Falcon Interactive Multimedia honored us with their Web of the Week Award for ``creative, interesting, unique and/or useful web sites.'' (1997/1/26)
25. Junkbusters is proud to have been nominated ``No junk site of the month.'' (1996/8)
26. We didn't think that a Web site with (almost) no graphics could possibly be considered cool, but Teleport's Useful/Cool commended us on both counts. (1996/8/15)

  Newspapers

Most recent stories mentioning us can be found by searching on Google News.

1. The Circuits section of the New York Times quoted us in a story about fake names made up automatically by spammers. (2004/2/5) The same day the New York Times and other publications also quoted us in a story on cellphone location privacy. Earlier the Times featured our Internet Junkbuster in a story about filtering of online advertising. (1998/8/6, p. G3) They have quoted our president many times, including an article on tracking surfers. (1998/8/16) This was discussed in several other publications, and was picked up by many including the International Herald Tribune. (1998/8/17, p. 11)
2. The UK Independent mentioned us in an article about intrusive popup ads. (2003/5/14)
3. The (London) Times quoted us in an article about Microsoft and privacy. (2001/10/13)
4. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer found our web site ``wonderful.'' (2001/8/6)
5. The Gannett News Service recommended our advice on cookies. (2001/6/4)
6. Canada's National Post quoted us in an unsettling story about Internet privacy. (2000/10/1)
7. New York's Daily News quoted us in a survey of ad filtering software. (2000/4/30)
8. The Economist quoted us on anonymity and political ads on the Internet. (2000/2/5, p. 24)
9. The Melbourne Age wrote of us: ``These guys think that every one is out to exploit and abuse your privacy. They might be right. You decide.'' (1999/11/24) They also mentioned our Internet Junkbuster software. (2002/3/15)
10. ``If you're online, you have one more friend in the fight to eliminate unwanted solicitations. Junkbusters (www.junkbusters.com) provides information on ''junk communications'' and privacy issues. So says the Florida Times-Union (1999/5/26)
11. The San Francisco Examiner has quoted us about the Melissa Virus and other issues. (1999/4/2)
12. The Philadelphia Inquirer concluded that ``Ensuring privacy on the Web can be one tough cookie.'' (1999/3/18) They also quoted us in Internet privacy a broad worry (1998/06/24) and a story on spam. (2003/5/18)
13. The Christian Science Monitor quoted us about Intel. (1999/2/16) They also recommended our site in their Cybercoverage section. (2000/2/21)
14. We were quoted by USA Today on the risks of Intel's Pentium III chip (1999/2/17, p. 6B) and on the risks of cookies. (1999/8/23)
15. The Dallas Morning News wrote about our Internet Junkbuster in Software removes Web site ads for adamant surfers (1999/1/12) and quoted us on immersive advertising. (1999/8/24)
16. England's Daily Telegraph noted our part in the Intel campaign. (1999/1/28) It also included us in a feature on the death of privacy. (2000/10/26)
17. A feature in Investor's Business Daily told readers How To Hide From Direct Marketing Firms (1998/6/26)
18. The Ottawa Citizen mentioned us in a story about hackers. (1998/6/26, p. H6)
19. The Detroit News linked to us in a discussion on cookies. (1998/10/29)
20. Toronto's The Globe and Mail discussed our Internet Junkbuster in Ad killers won't slay the Web. (1998/9/17)
21. The Seattle Times recommended our site in an story about how spammers get email addresses. (1998/8/30)
22. We were quoted in an AP story on banner ad filters appeared on many sites, including ABC News and USA Today. (1998/8/25) Many newspapers ran the story, including he Sacramento Bee, the Las Vegas Record Journal, and the Palo Alto Daily News. (1998/8/26)
23. The Wall Street Journal reviewed our site in an article titled The War Against Junk, which concluded ``if you are looking to slow the crush, Junkbusters can help.'' (1998/8/6) They have also quoted us in other articles about privacy and marketing, and mentioned us in various stories on our boycott of Intel. (1999/3/1, p. C18) [Just Sell] (1998/10/12, p. B8) The Wall Street Journal Europe quoted us on banner ad filtering. (1999/3/15)
24. Australia's national daily, The Australian said our site ``could be the best start to finding ad-free heaven.'' (1998/7/20)
25. The Knoxville News-Sentinel quoted us on identify fraud. (1998/7/26)
26. The Baltimore City Paper quoted us in an article on data privacy. (1998/6/10)
27. The Hartford Courant quoted us on the privacy aspects of the merger of Citibank and Travelers (1998/4/17) and on spam. (2001/5/11)
28. The European praised our site, and remarked on the fact that we tell people not to use the same password on our site as others. (1998/3/30, p. 34)
29. The London Financial Times quoted us in a column about Californian anti-spam legislation. (1998/3/16, p. 14) They also included us in Round up the Junk E-Mail Cowboys in their Media Futures column, (1996/10/21, p. 15) in an article titled Privacy: Personal approaches could prompt a backlash (1999/7/7, p. 9 (UK Edition)) and in Advertising: hit and miss in cyberspace. (1999/9/16) The Internet Junkbuster was mentioned in a story on ads getting bigger. (2001/3/1)
30. The San Jose Mercury News quoted us on the inadequate response of industry to the government's call for voluntary privacy protections. (1998/03/14)
31. The Washington Post wrote ``If you want to know more about what cookies are used for, and how to set your computer to reject them, go to [our cookie page]''. (1998/3/9, p. F25) This was also mentioned in Databases Start to Fuel Consumer Ire. (1998/3/10, p. A1) Their Sunday Magazine discussed ways of stopping telemarketers. ``For information on all of these strategies, check out www.junkbusters.com,'' they concluded. (1999/7/11, p. W09 )
32. The Irish Times commended our information for getting off junk email lists. (1998/3/2, p. 10)
33. The Washington Times listed us in Firms help Disconnect `Telenuisances'. (1998/2/10, p. E3)
34. The Atlanta Journal Constitution's Netwatch featured us. (1998/01/18)
35. Bloomington, IL's Pantagraph included us in What to do if you're tired of receiving junk e-mail. (1997/12/17)
36. The Scotsman recommended our ``UK-specific information on avoiding junk mail.'' (1998/1/14)
37. The Orange County Register recommended our identd check and spam defense information. (1997/12/21) And again: (1998/3/22, p. K08) And again on telemarketing: (1998/7/5)
38. The San Jose Mercury News did too. (1998/1/3)
39. Our site was recommended by USA Today in How to steer clear of spammers' radar. (1997/11/6) and by the Florida Times-Union. (1997/11/14)
40. When Judith Lewis of the LA Weekly couldn't figure out how spammers got her email address, she consulted ``the best in the business'' and found by using our test that she was being exposed by her ISP running identd. (1997/8/8, p. 55) Their Sitegeist. also recommended us. (1998/8/7)
41. Hi-tech author Simson Garfinkel recommended our letter-drafting service in the Boston Globe. (1997/9/18, p. CO4) The Globe also featured our .http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacyweb header demonstration page (2000/3/8)
42. The Albany Times Union included us in their anti-spam resources. (1997/7/29)
43. The Newark Star-Ledger included us in a series of articles on privacy. (1997/8/25)
44. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel has listed us in stories about invasions of privacy by marketers. (1997/8/3)
45. Columnist Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune commended our ``very thorough primer on U.S. laws on telemarketing.'' (1997/7/28) The Tribune also included us in an article from AP called How to cut 'spam' out of you diet (1997/8/28, p. C3) and another of their own. (2001/4/5)
46. The UK-based Guardian quotes us in its article Should spam be canned? (1997/7/16, p. 4)
47. The San Francisco Chronicle called our site:

    a mammoth source of information about "junk messages" and "privacy-invading marketing." If you're bothered by e-mail spam, pop-up Web advertising or telemarketing calls, look here for strategies to stop the harassment. (2001/8/6)

    It also ran an Op-Ed piece by Junkbusters founder Jason Catlett titled Is It Online Buying Or Spying? (2000/5/4) They also listed Junkbusters as a resource in Putting a Stop to Spam (1998/11/16) and The Search for a Spam-Free Internet. (1997/7/8, p. C4 ) This also appeared in the Montreal Gazette (1997/7/9, p. D11)
48. Allentown, PA's Morning Call quoted us extensively in a series on internet privacy. (1997/9/17) also (1997/9/2, p. D1) They also included us in a story on banner ads. (1998/4/7)
49. The Wisconsin State Journal recommended our comments to the FTC's privacy hearings. (1997/6/13)
50. We appeared in Web Tips in the Rocky Mountain News. (1997/10/26, p. 4G)
51. The Wall Street Journal has quoted Junkbusters's CEO in articles about junk email. (1997/06/13, p. B1) (1998/05/18)
52. Leslie Miller of USA Today cited our URL in Junk e-mail new toxic waste of the Net (1997/6/13) and in a followup titled Junk e-mailer vows to clean up the Net (1997/6/16) and again in Net users battle growing flood of cyberjunk (1997/8/19, p. 8D)
53. The Orange County Register asks ``How can something as innocent-sounding as a "cookie" provoke heated debate in Washington over calls for strong new federal privacy protections and offers of voluntary policing from industry?'' They included the Internet Junkbuster among their anti-cookie measures. (1997/6/12)
54. The Tampa Tribune asked ``who 'ya gonna call?'' when you find your mailbox ``stuffed with catalogs.'' (1997/1/23, p. 2)
55. The Wisconsin State Journal featured us in an article titled How to Disconnect. (1996/12/13, p. 1D)
56. The Brandwidth column of the Australian Financial Review discussed the bloating of web advertising, and noted that many users are downloading software such as the Internet Junkbuster. (1997/5/12)
57. We featured prominently in a story titled Unwanted Communications: Getting Rid of Junk Mail in Charlotte's Creative Loafing. (1996/12/14)
58. The Boulder County Business News quoted us in an article by Hilary Lane that covers the ways spammers get email addresses. (1997/4)
59. A columnist in the Bangkok Post includes us in an article about cookies that begins: ``I remember the first time I saw the Netscape Navigator message telling me that I was about to receive a cookie, at the time I had no idea what one was but I like cookies so I said OK and nothing seemed to happen.'' (1997/3/19) They also mentioned us in a story about email. (1998/10/28)
60. An article titled Got Cookies? in the San Francisco Chronicle lists us under the heading of ``Cookie Munching Software.'' (1997/3/11, p. C4)
61. A Reuters story about a real-time pricing of ads stated that our blocking of ads could ``diminish the use of Internet advertising overall,'' in the version run by Silicon Valley's newspaper of record, the San Jose Mercury News (1997/2/23) and the Nando Times.
62. We appeared in the Netcetera column of the St Paul Pioneer Press. (1997/2/24)
63. A syndicated LA Times article by Terry Schwadron opens ``So you don't like receiving `junk mail' in your e-mail any more than you like seeing it delivered to your home.'' Describing us as one of the ``magnets for activists on the issue,'' it notes our ``specific techniques in how to rebel.'' (1997/1/20) This was picked up in Newsday. (1997/1/26, p. A45) Later the Times also covered the debate at Spring Internet World '98 between our ``mild-mannered founder'' and arch-spammer Sanford Wallace. (1998/3/16, p. D3) This was also covered by UPI. We were also quoted in New Services May Peddle Privacy on Virtual Market (1999/4/5, p. A1)
64. The Fort Worth Star published most of our Anti-telemarketing script in a long article on how consumers are making telemarketers pay (1996/12/8, p. E4)
65. Knight-Ridder syndicated Internet columnist Glenn Gamboa interviewed us in a story in the Akron Beacon about junk email (1996/9/30) and in a follow-up (1997/2/3). The story was picked up by the San Diego Union Tribune (1997/2/11), the Miami Herald (1997/2/10), and the Philadelphia Inquirer (1997/2/27). He also mentioned us in an FAQ for newcomers to the net, which ran in the Edmonton Journal (1997/9/4) and Tulsa World (1997/9/6, p. E9) and other places. Just the FAQs ran in the News-Times. (1997/09/05)
66. The Miami Herald also included us in an article on the list business (1998/02/01) and interviewed us on junk mail. (2000/8/27)
67. In a story titled ``Web Surfers Warned about Advertising Sharks,'' the Australian Financial Review pointed to our page on cookies, commenting, ``...some Internet users have recoiled at the prospect of cookies that track their every move.'' The AFR is Australia's leading financial daily newspaper. (1996/12/3, p. 5)
68. Nexis also indicates that we appeared in the following publications: Louisville, KY's Courier Journal (1997/7/29, p. 3F) Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 19978 Florida Times (1996/10/6, p. H6) Richmond Times Dispatch (1996/11/1, p. 7) Detroit News (1996/10/31, p. F1) Idaho Statesman (1996/9/15, p. 1D) and (1997/10/13, p. 1D) Sunday Gazette Mail (Charleston) (1997/9/7, p. 9B)

  Computing and technology magazines

1. We were quoted on spam in On Magazine. (2001/8)
2. MIT's Technology Review quoted us on ZKS Freedom. (2000/3)
3. We were quoted by InformationWeek on the Intel boycott. (1999/2/17)
4. A speech by our President at the US Capitol was covered by PC World. Our call for privacy rights online was reported by PC World News (1999/7/14) Our advice on cookies was cited by privacy expert Jeffrey Rothfeder in PC World Online (1998/12)
5. Our comments on the IDMB's opt-in email policy were quoted by Internet News. (1998/11/13)
6. ZD's Family PC recommended our resources on spam. (1998/10)
7. The magazine tome Computer Shopper included us in a story Net users, vendors strive to can spam (1997/9, p. 106) Its name seems to have been changed to NetBuyer.
8. A detailed article in Computerworld explains how Companies work to stamp out spam . (1997/4/29)
9. Australia's PC User featured us in an article titled Spam-bushed!
10. A cover story on ZD's Internet Underground magazine featured our Top 10 Tips on Spam. (1997/7, p. 29)
11. ZD's Computer Shopper recommended our entire site in Sites That Fight for Your Rights. (1998/04)
12. A survey of anti-spam methods in PC Computing included us. (1998/1, p. 433)
13. Ziff-Davis's PC Magazine Internet User listed us as one of the lead resources for Fighting Junk E-Mail. (1997/6/4)
14. In Yahoo's Internet Life magazine Angela Gunn recommends dropping by Junkbusters ``for the latest spam-stopping tips.'' (1997/6) We also appeared in their Basic Net Guides (1997/12, p. 124) and again in their Surf School (1999/3/3) in Get even with spammers, (1999/9/16) and in Quick Tips. (1999/7)
15. Plesman's Computing Canada quoted our comments on startup VerticalOne. (1999/7) CNET later reported on VerticalOne's option to email account status. [Washington Post]

  General interest magazines

Specialist publications are listed below.

1. The Reader's Digest quoted us in an article on banner ad filtering. (2002/7, p. 206)
2. We were quoted is in an article in Business 2.0. (2001/6/12)
3. The Architectural Digest quoted us in an article on online privacy. (2001/4, p. 164)
4. Our tips on keeping a low profile formed a sidebar to a Forbes magazine article on banner ad filtering. (2000/11/27) We were quoted in an article titled Consumer Spy about Abacus in Forbes (2005/12/22)
5. Our presentation at the 2000 Orwell Awards was covered by Scientific American. (2000/5)
6. In a cover story on online privacy, Consumer Reports wrote that Junkbusters ``provides detailed advice and software to help the computer-savvy user fend off junk mail, telemarketing calls, faxes, e-mail and web banner ads.'' (2000/5, p. 48)
7. Our Internet Junkbuster was included in a review of proxies in Byte.com (2000/3/13)
8. The Utne Reader included us in their special issue ``Beyond Privacy.'' (2000/3, p. 58) They later wrote of our Anti-Telemarketing Script: ``Using this "script" (and what's more satisfying than to beat telemarketers by using their own methods?) recipients of telephone solicitations can get vital information on who's calling and how to end future calls. ...If revenge is your aim, the script even offers possible ways to sue them...'' (2002/7/17)
9. The magazine Worth quoted us in an article about medical and workplace privacy. (1999/10, p. 114)
10. ``Fortunately, there are groups looking out for the customer's interest like... Junkbusters.'' So said Fortune. (1999/4/2)
11. We commented on Free-PC's giveaway in Newsweek. (1999/2/9) Our Internet Junkbuster was included in a story about online ads. (1999/6/5) [Search Newsweek.com for Junkbusters]
12. We were quoted by US News and World Report in Even more Intel Inside. (1999/2/8) Another story on telemarketing mentioned our script. (1999/5/3)
13. Both the music magazine Billboard (1999/2/6) and their daily Billboard Bulletin (2000/12/11, p. 2) have mentioned us.
14. ``Sick and tired of spam, telemarketers' phone calls and junk mail?'' asked Smart Money Interactive. ``Then it's time to fight back. A visit to Junkbusters will give you the ammunition you need to fight all three.'' (1998/8/28)
15. Our Internet Junkbuster was featured in a list of cookie-management software in Black Enterprise TechWatch. (1998/5)
16. A cookie story in Time Digital mentioned us. (1998/4/27, p. 50) We were also in their Special Report on privacy. (2000/6/10)
17. We were quoted in an article titled Unlovely Spam in the libertarian Reason magazine. (1997/10, p. 56)
18. The Internet Junkbuster was one of three anti-cookie programs recommended by Working Woman magazine. (1997/12, p. 18)
19. The ``Flash!'' page of Self magazine opened with: ``More than 70 billion catalogs and direct-mail items are sent through the U.S. postal system each year. Had enough? Log on to a free Internet service called [Junkbusters] to stop unwanted mail.'' (1997/3, p. 87)
20. The Editorial Eye recommended our spam pages. (1997/11)
21. We were the lead site recommended in an article on spam in Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. (1998/1, p. 48) Kiplinger's also quoted us on electronic privacy (2000/8) and recommended our Anti-Telemarketing Script. (1999/4)
22. We were quoted in an article in Business Startups magazine titled Business Netiquette. (1997/12) This was story was adapted for Microsoft Smallbiz.
23. In its cover story Protect Your Privacy, Money magazine cites our opt-out services and our Internet Junkbuster software. (1997/8, p. 110) It also linked to us in a story on financial privacy. (2000/5/17)
24. A cover story titled 80 ways to save time doing anything in Men's Health advises: ``Next time your dinner is interrupted by someone from Time/Life trying to sell you Larry Ferrari's Organ Classics (8 CDs or 24 cassettes), turn the table on the telemarketer by asking the following:'' [The first eight questions of our Anti-Telemarketing Script.] (1997/5, p. 153)
25. We were included in an article titled Keeping the Junk Out of E-Mailboxes in Business Week (1997/2/24, p. 104) and another later article. (1998/3/2, p. 144) Their online version featured a long interview with our President asking Internet Regulation: Will It Hinder or Help Small Business? (1999/5/6)
26. The Netropolitan column in New Scientist describes the Spam Hater software and concludes ``For more information than you could ever need about spam and protecting your privacy, take a look at...'' http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/links.html. It has hundreds of connections to sites that dispense anti-spam advice and software.'' (1997/2/8, p. 19) They also referred to our page on Microsoft and GUID. (1999/4/24) and quoted us on SPIM. (2004/3/24)
27. The magazine Consumers' Research included our entire anti-telemarketing script in their consumer tips. (1997/1)
28. The magazine New Woman asks

    Sick of answering the phone at 9:00 on Saturday morning to tell someone who mispronounces your name that you don't need another credit card, thank you? Can't open your mailbox because it is stuffed with holiday catalogs you ordered from five years ago? Who you gonna call? Junkbusters, at http://www.junkbusters.com.

    (1996/12, p. 91)

  Trade Publications

Specialist publications mainly serving businesses are listed here.

1. Our comments on Doubleclick were quoted in an Ecompany Now story titled Kevin O'Connor Gives People the Willies. (2000/10)
2. The magazine for Chief Information Officers, CIO, reported on our testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee. (2000/4/26) They also cited our report on Network Advertising and privacy. (2000/10/1, p. 205)
3. ``Jason Catlett, to put it bluntly, considers other people's privacy his business,'' wrote Esther Dyson her influential computer industry newsletter Release 1.0. (2000/3/13, p. 39)
4. An analysis of tracking and privacy on the web in Communications Week International included us. (1999/6/7, p. 23)
5. Venture capital magazine Upside mentioned our Web site ``provides tips and free software for remaining anonymous and safe on the Internet.'' (1999/2/24)
6. The Venture Capital magazine Red Herring covered our role in the DoubleClick campaign. (2000/1/31)
7. We're in articles in Bank Rate Monitor on telemarketing (2000/5/15) and online privacy seals (1999/4/26) and banking privacy. (1999/10/8)
8. ZD Net News covered our part in the boycott of Intel. (1999/2/16)
9. The Industry Standard cited our role in the Intel Privacy Battle (1999/1/25) and in Does Big Brother Live in Redmond? (1999 5/13/35)
10. We were quoted in an article on Pegasus in Data Warehouse Report. (1998/10/20)
11. The Online Reporter featured our Internet Junkbuster. (1998/7/20, p. 3) They also covered our call for the FTC to investigate Microsoft. (1999/4)
12. We were quoted on privacy in Data Mining News (1998/7/6)
13. We were cited as an anti-spam source in Controller Magazine.
14. Our software was featured in an article titled WebWiper, JunkBuster erase ads on the Net in Advertising Age. (1998/04/27)
15. The Internet Junkbuster is discussed in an article about caching and filtering in Asia/Pacific Open Systems Review. (1997/4)
16. We were quoted in an article in Interactive Week titled Can 'Opt-Out' Lists Repel Spam? (1997/7/14)
17. The trade magazine Bank Rate Monitor quoted our President on privacy and security issues in electronic commerce. (1998/3/23)
18. Database magazine The Searcher recommended our pages. (1998/3)
19. Our Internet Junkbuster proxy was recommended in Web Techniques magazine (1998/2) and cited by NewMedia. (1997/9/22)
20. We were quoted in an article in Infoworld titled Privacy: what you need to know. (1997/11/3)
21. The trade newsletter Precision Marketing featured us. (1997/3/24, p. 2)
22. An article about the new cookie standard in Computerworld noted that we ``recently launched a free Unix cookie-management proxy server that uses the proposed standard.'' (1997/3/12)
23. Media Central's Directory World carried a story that the Direct Marketing Association reported we offer Internet users ``the opportunity to limit how marketers can use and share personal information attached to online listings.'' (1996/12/4)
24. An article on cookies in Interactive PR referenced us. (1997/3/10)
25. Mecklermedia's Internet World magazine (formerly Web Week) quoted us in Merchant Sites Careful To Avoid Spammer Label. (1998/3/16)
26. When the online magazine UnixWorld introduced banner ads to their site they published a page telling readers who don't like ads how to use the Internet Junkbuster. They even included a sample blockfile covering their ads.
27. Our fight against spam was reported in LAN Magazine. (1997/2)
28. We also appeared in the Journal of Commerce (1997/10/29, p. 56) and Electronic Advertising and Marketplace Report (1997/4/8)
29. Sarah Stambler's Marketing with Technology News featured us. (1996/9, p. 1)
30. The direct marketing industry's newspaper of record, DM News, ran a lead story on us (1996/8/27) that opened with the following sentence:

    Junkbusters Corp. is setting out to do just what its name says: Help consumers get rid of all the "junk" pitches they want to avoid regardless of the distribution method.

    We couldn't have put it better ourselves.

    In an editorial (1999/6/21) DM News criticized our opposition to the DoubleClick/Abacus merger. They also ran our President's response. (1999/6/28)

  Web Media Conglomerates

The two leading Web news channels, CNET (news.com) and Wired News both have many articles mentioning us; for an up-to-date list use their search functions.

1. Online mag Slate quoted us in ``Four tips for secret surfing'' (2002/9/18)
2. The Web financial radio channel On24 has recorded several interviews with Junkbusters founder Jason Catlett. [Streaming Audio - Infomediaries] [SA - Fraud] (1999/12/17)
3. The online Salon Magazine quoted us on opt-out email (1998/10/30) and the National Change of Address scheme (2000/4/20) and email address harvesting. (2000/4/18)
4. Reuters has quoted us on various stories. (1999/4/8) NetTrends: Novell's Directory For E-Commerce, Privacy (1999/4/13)
5. Our criticism of Microsoft's record on privacy was reported by Newsbytes. (1998/11/19)
6. Our Internet Junkbuster was discussed on Net Talk Live. (1998/11/21)
7. The tech section of ABCNews.com picked up the privacy hole we reported to CNET. (1998/6/29)
8. The ``Internet Tour'' of spam on Inside Denver recommends two of our pages.
9. We were quoted in a story about spamming and UPS in CNET. (1997/8/14)
10. Internet broadcaster GRIT featured us. (1997/8/11)
11. Our page on how to avoid spam was featured in Web Review. (1997/8/1)
12. The Convergence linked to our Anti-telemarketing resources in their coverage of AOL's fiasco over selling members' phone numbers to telemarketers. (1997/7/28)
13. ``Know thy enemy'' counseled Advertising Online in their alert on the Internet Junkbuster. (Later withdrawn, apparently.)
14. We have been featured on the AOL ``Welcome'' screen as a way to fight junk mail at various times (1997/3/ 7)
15. The first coverage of the Internet Junkbuster was in a Wired News story titled Junkbuster Strips Banners, Cookies by John Gilles: ``Fed up with unwanted cookies being shoved on your hard drive? Internet Junkbuster invites you to send back a protest "wafer."'' (1997/2/22) They also quoted us in Intellicast Smartens Up to Banner Bypass (1997/3/28) and on the question of the effect of banner busters on the web. (1998/3/18)
16. Co-founder of Suck Joey Anuff commended our Internet Junkbuster in an article titled Net surf: surveillance is good in Wired News and Hotwired. He expanded this argument in Wired 6.01 (p.92): ``Public awareness of Web tracking tools is already widespread enough for people to start labeling them as privacy threats. ... What most alarmist miss is that while online users are being tracked, they're mainly interesting as blips in a larger pattern.'' Maybe so to web site designers, but direct marketers want to track the individual.
17. We were listed in an article titled Strategies your organization can use to tame the e-mail monster in NetscapeWorld among the resources used by webmasters at popular sites. The detailed article ranges from filtering software to legal issues.
18. CNET's coverage on junk email says: ``This site offers a free Junkbusters Spamoff notification to post on your Web site telling spammers to get lost, and provides other spam-stopping tips.''

  Television

We're particularly grateful for reports of TV and radio stations mentioning us, because they are harder for us to notice. Sometimes we just have the name of the station and the date, and don't know what was transmitted.

1. Our president was an interview guest on Pure Oxygen. (2001/2/6)
2. Chris Matthews interviewed our President about ``Cookiegate'' on MSNBC's Hardball. (2000/6/26)
3. Public television's Nightly Business Report interviewed our President for its Good Friday Special Program "Nobody's Business! New Concerns About Privacy." (2000/4/21)
4. Our President was a guest on the Montel Williams Show. (1999/12/27)
5. CBS's 60 Minutes interviewed our President on Internet privacy. [DM News 1] [Industry Standard] (1999/11/28)
6. CBS This Morning featured our anti-telemarketing script. (1999/5/18)
7. CNET TV covered us. (1999/5/1)
8. ABC's 20/20 featured our anti-telemarketing script. (1999/3/3)
9. Our anti-telemarketing tips were featured by NBC-4-LA. (1999/2/15)
10. Our Internet Junkbuster was featured nationally on CBS Saturday Morning [1] (1998/10/17)
11. A few miscellaneous TV stations that mentioned us: Phoenix, AZ's KPHO-TV, CBS-5 (1998/10/17) South Florida's WFOR-TV4 (1998/10/19) Oklahoma City's KOMO ABC 4 (1998/10/24)
12. Our president was an interview guest on Fox TV's Kavuto Report. [Transcript] (1999/1/26) We were also mentioned elsewhere on Fox TV (1998/8/26)
13. ABC WXYZ-TV's Detroit Now featured our anti-telemarketing script. (1998/1/19)
14. ABC's Good Morning America included us in a show on consumer privacy. (1998/8/3)
15. Our president's speech at the U.S. Department of Commerce on email privacy was covered by C-SPAN. (1998/6/23)
16. Public Television station NJN's Due Process featured us as a guest on their special about Internet privacy. (1998/4/14)
17. The Really Useful Show on BBC-1 told viewers ``Who Ya Gonna Mail? Junkbusters will tell you more than we will ever know. We're ordering you to visit and discover, amongst other tactics, how to stay off spammers' mailing lists...'' (1998/03/06)
18. The Lost in Cyber-Space Show of WYHT featured us on their anti-spamming show. (1998/02/19)
19. Nyla Ahmad of Owl Magazine recommended our site on the Discovery Channel in Canada. (1997/9/18)
20. Central Illinois TV Station WEEK recommends our ``handy form letter'' for getting off junk mail lists. (1997/8/25)
21. ``Now you can use your home computer to cut down on the amount of junk mail you get at home!'' WCMH-TV featured us on NewsChannel 4 at Noon. (1997/7/24)
22. CBC Newsworld covered us (1996/12/13).
23. ZD TV's The Site broadcast an interview with us in their ``Spam Slam'' special on MSNBC cable. (1997/7/21) (1997/6/10)
24. Our pages on junk email were recommended in the CyberTraffic Report of http://www.pctv.com/ (1997/5/15)
25. MSNBC asked Do sites need to know who you are? They quoted us on the dangers of long-term profiling. (1997/6)
26. Part of our CEO's presentation to the FTC (1997/6/12) was broadcast by CNN Moneyline that evening.
27. Our site was featured by Good Evening Arizona on KTBK-TV (1997/6/16)
28. Arizona's AZ Family recommended us as one of two great Internet sites to check out for Stopping Junk Mail and Phone Calls. (1997/5/25)
29. WCCO included us in their story on Alaska's new anti-telemarketing ``asterisk'' law Channel 4000 which lets Alaskans ``stop phone solicitations by having a black dot placed next to their directory listing.'' (1996/12/11) They also mentioned us in a story on tracking and cookies. (1998/8/10) They and KOIN also linked to us in a story on junk mail.
30. ZDTV's The Site says, ``Junkbusters tells you how to get rid of unwanted solicitations, be they phone, mail or email.'' Well said. (1996/9/30)

  Radio

We often do radio interviews on major syndicated shows. A few of these are listed below.

1. National Public Radio (NPR)'s Morning Edition interviewed us on CPEX, the proposed Customer Profile Exchange standard. [Audio] (1999/11/16)
2. PC-radio.com's Brian McWilliams interviewed our President and Seth Godin. (1999/10/19)
3. BBC Radio's Five Live interviewed our president and writer David Brin, at the Economic Crime Summit. (1999/5/10)
4. We were interviewed about privacy, the Internet Junkbuster and telemarketing by Jeff Levy on KFI's talk-show on computers. (1998/6/5)
5. We were featured on Tech Radio. (1998/5/9)
6. Our President is frequently interviewed on CNET News Radio, including a feature on Microsoft. (1998/4/10)
7. Our President was interviewed about data privacy for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Future Tense program, distributed by Public Radio International (PRI). (1998/3/18) We were also on PRI's Marketplace Radio . (1999/3/9)
8. Syndicated radio spot Internet Minute featured us on radio stations in Australia and the US, including WCBS News Radio. (1998/2/19)
9. Delaware Valley public radio station WDVR featured our president as a talk-show guest. (1997/8/25)
10. CNET Radio broadcast live the FTC's hearings on privacy. The audio file includes some of our comments. (1997/6/12)
11. We were interviewed on PC World News Radio about the FTC's spam hearings. (1997/6/13) They also quoted Simson Garfinkel on how our Internet Junkbuster can be used to stop cookies. They interviewed us again for the Department of Commerce's meeting. [1] [2] (1998/06/23)
12. KGO Newstalk 810 San Francisco's Laporte on Computers discussed our site. (1997/3/1)
13. WALE Radio 990 AM Rhode Island's Dial-A-Nerd also discussed us. (1997/3)

  Links to us on the Web

Because there are thousands of references to us on the Web, we can include only a small sample here. For more ask a search engine.

1. The Spam Wars category of Yahoo News lists us as one of the related web sites.
2. Our site was recommended in readers' tips section of the Dollar Stretcher (1998/01/19)
3. The New York State Consumer Protection Board specifically mentions our Anti-telemarketing Script.
4. The W3 Consortium list us as one of two privacy companies in their list of Web privacy resources (the other is PGP). Our Internet Junkbuster is also mentioned in a discussion about PICS.
5. Axel Boldt, the author of WebFilter, perhaps the most popular advertising filtering software on the Web, commended our site in his page on Internet advertising.
6. Ad curator Jeffrey Zeldman started recommending JUNKBUSTERS SPAMOFF after someone spammed everyone who signed the guest book in his award-winning site. ``While you're at it, you can also get most of the junk mailers and telemarketers out of your life.''

   Most of Zeldman's gallery is entertaining and informative, though some might consider certain parts of it tasteless or offensive.

7. One of our clients stated on Usenet: ``I used to get at least three telemarketing calls a day--I get maybe one a week now.'' Another client wrote in his page of favorite links: ``I HIGHLY recommend their Anti-telemarketing Script. Print it out and keep it beside your phone, because it REALLY works!''
8. Yahoo! made us founding members of two categories they created in 1996: Anti-telemarketing, and Anti-Direct Marketing. We are also included under categories for Junk Email and three categories for our Internet Junkbuster software. For a full list try their search query.
9. Netscape's Open Directory lists us in the Advertising/Opposing Views category.
10. We were included in a list of telemarketing resources in an online business park.
11. The Internet Advertising Resource Guide lists us under ``Legal and Ethical.''
12. The editor of the Hitchhiker's Web Guide is one of the growing number of webmasters who use JUNKBUSTERS SPAMOFF and tell their customers about it.
13. ISP Novagate were one of the first to link to us, in their list of consumer privacy resources.
14. Consumer World lists us among their Consumer Resources.

  Search engines that index us

For queries linking to search engines see our Search page.

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