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The Pirate Bay now distributing the 'PirateBrowser' package

by Mark Tyson on 12 August 2013, 11:15

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The Pirate Bay (TPB) celebrated its 10th anniversary at the weekend and to mark the occasion launched its own 'PirateBrowser'. In a blog post on the TPB website the torrents sharing site celebrated its 10th anniversary saying "We really didn't think we'd make it this far". The post continued to explain that after "a decade of aggression, repression and lulz", TPB are happy to still be young at heart and be bothered enough to keep going despite the efforts of the "cops, mafiaa or corrupt politicians".

What is the PirateBrowser?

A site is now available dedicated to the PirateBrowser with a download link, installation instructions, getting started help and a FAQ. The PirateBrowser might better be described as a browser bundle package containing the portable edition of Mozilla's Firefox, the FoxyProxy addon and the Tor client.

The Tor client was designed for private/anonymous web surfing but it is, as a by-product, useful to circumvent web filtering systems put in place by governments and ISPs (Internet Service Providers). Blocking and filtering of internet content has been in the news in increasing intensity lately so this PirateBrowser release will probably add petrol to that media fire.

The PirateBrowser website claims its new bundle "allows you to circumvent censorship that certain countries such as Iran, North Korea, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Italy and Ireland impose onto their citizens."  In addition the creators of the bundle say that the packages bundled together haven't been modified and include "no adware, trojans, toolbars, etc".

The 30MB self-extracting installer looks very simple to download, install and use. After the files are extracted to a destination of your choice the 'Start PirateBrowser' app will connect to the Tor network for you and then open up the standalone Firefox portable browser. The PirateBrowser has several preloaded bookmarks including those for The Pirate Bay, EZTV, KickassTorrents, Bitsnoop and H33T. In related news, according to TorrentFreak the next TPB project will be a BitTorrent-powered browser.



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I didn't realise that the official TOR bundle contained adware, toolbars or other crap?
TheAnimus
I didn't realise that the official TOR bundle contained adware, toolbars or other crap?

No, but it recently came to light that a popular browser/tor bundle *did* contain various tracking stuff.
I'm not bothered about all the TPB bookmarks/connections etc, but the idea of a truly stripped down, *fast* browser is one that I like…
Roobubba
…but the idea of a truly stripped down, *fast* browser is one that I like…
+1

Although I'd be happy enough if FF didn't start eating process memory like John Prescott in a pie shop.
Well done TPB. Now, you have your own browser , very soon you will have your own OS :rolleyes: