The Pirate Bay releases censorship-thwarting browser

[kenjoe41]

The Pirate Bay releases censorship-thwarting browser
Posted on 12 August 2013.
Bookmark and Share
The operators of The Pirate Bay, one of the most (in)famous piracy sites on the Internet, have decided to celebrate the site's 10th anniversary by releasing a web browser that allows users to access TPB or other sites censored in their country.

"PirateBrowser is a bundle package of the Tor client (Vidalia), Firefox Portable browser (with foxyproxy addon) and some custom configs," they explained on the browser's official website.

"No bundled ad-ware, toolbars or other crap, just a Pre-configured Firefox browser," they wrote on the blog post announcing the release of PirateBrowser.

They made sure to note that even though the browser users the Tor network, it won't allow you to surf the net anonymously.

The browser will look very familiar to Firefox users but to others as well. It sports pre-loaded bookmarks to The Pirate Bay as well as to other torrent sites that are blocked in a number of countries.
piratebrowser

[vezzy]

Read about it, but it's highly unnotable for what basically amounts to a rebranded Tor Browser. Windows-only too, IIRC.

[kenjoe41]

Well the macos and linux versions are soon to be out. Plus it should be noted that you are not at all anonymous on the web using this browser. My spirits aint high.

[hanorotu]

I was hoping for something original, since I already use FireFox I think that I will just stick to what I have.

[TH3CR4CK3R]

I downloaded this the other day to try it out. For those who may be wondering it will run in linux using wine. Tested in my custom version of Backbox running 3.5 kernel. However, as stated it is basically the same thing as the tor_bundle package.