Pirate Bay’s Anti-Censorship Browser Clocks 100,000 Downloads

People will always find a way around road blocks. They did however miss the 'boat' on naming this appropriately. It should have been called "PirateShip" because that's how you get to Pirate Bay.

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Within three days of its launch The Pirate Bay’s PirateBrowser, which allows people to bypass ISP filtering and access blocked websites, has already been downloaded more than 100,000 times. The Pirate Bay team say they never expected the browser to catch on this quickly, while noting that they are determined to provide more anti-censorship tools.

The browser is based on Firefox 23 bundled with a Tor client and some proxy configurations to speed up page loading. It is meant purely as a tool to circumvent censorship, but The Pirate Bay teams wants to reiterate that it doesn’t provide any anonymity for its users.

“It’s not providing anonymity and it’s not secure to hide your identity. PirateBrowser is only supposed to circumvent censoring and website blocking. If we made the browser fully anonymous it would only slow down browsing,” Winston explains.

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I already use tor, but what happened recently with freedom hosting don't know how secure that still is.

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I like your name "PirateShip" better, than "PirateBrowser".

Yes, where there is a will, there is a way. As monitoring technologies improve, one would hope the counter technologies, or privacy technology would improve in relation.

Pirate Bay will certainly be filling a need. But, a word of caution. With any new application, especially a browser, be wary of potential exploits and malicious attacks. The torrent universe is filled with all sorts of people. Third party developers have difficulties in my experience to addressing all the possible issues with new software that gets utilized on a large scale when they dont have millions of dollars of support in place, like Microsoft and Firefox.

Did the virus bay
clean it self up ...

anything downloaded from them
better come with a digital shot of penicillin

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A little bit of searching, reading, caution and common sense is your penicillin for the Pirate Bay.

Originally posted by spoonbender
Did the virus bay
clean it self up ...

anything downloaded from them
better come with a digital shot of penicillin

I don't know what the heck you're downloading from PirateBay, but I've never once had a problem.

Well, let me amend that: What shadowlink says....

good sources there guys but living in the wilderness of scotland you cannot download anything as the connection speed is so slow it is even a hassle to watch a you tube video downloading a movie takes 10 + hours if the link stays and more often than not it will not i cannot even get tivo/ netflix etc everytime you look over at the router it is red

Originally posted by spoonbender
Did the virus bay
clean it self up ...

anything downloaded from them
better come with a digital shot of penicillin

I have never once gotten a virus from TPB.

The thing that makes the bay stand out from the rest is the community, read the comments before you download and you will never, ever get a fake file or virus from the pirate bay.

I have never, ever come across the problem of a "censored" website or blocked internet access.
Maybe because I do not live in China.

If someone has the problem that their ISPs would block certain sites, I'd recommend either

a) changing your ISP *asap*

or

b) changing the country you live

I personally use the PB rather often, and this does NOT necessarily mean for copyrighted stuff. In fact I uploaded some freely distributable but very good ebooks recently. I use the PB since it's still the most used torrent site. I don't see a need for a FF with TOR or using TOR at all. As as said if I needed that to surf some sites I would change my ISP rather than using some halfa$$ measure required to beat a ISP's censorship.

Look for the green and pink skull in the torrent, those are the trusted ones.

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PirateBrowser_0.6b.exe???

Windows losers: get a real operating system!

But seriously, folks: if this is based on FF, why isn't it multi-platform?

My second sentence is but meant as a joke. I really wouldn't want this thread to devolve into a p*ssing between the various OS fanboy factions, but I am sincerely curious why it is only for Windows machines. Guess one can do the virtual machine thang, but why is that necessary?

deleted... tmi

I have never once got a virus from anything i've d'ld from piratebay, but i also read the comments and i'm careful about what i download. I never even go to piratebay without running a peerblocker , and i've started keeping the peerblock up almost always while my comp is on now..

Originally posted by MrInquisitive
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PirateBrowser_0.6b.exe???

Windows losers: get a real operating system!

But seriously, folks: if this is based on FF, why isn't it multi-platform?

My second sentence is but meant as a joke. I really wouldn't want this thread to devolve into a p*ssing between the various OS fanboy factions, but I am sincerely curious why it is only for Windows machines. Guess one can do the virtual machine thang, but why is that necessary?

Probably market share. It's just been released and they may not have found the time or talent to port it to 'nix. Windows takes the lion's share of the market currently, so it would make sense to release that first, to reach the widest audience.

Porting it to Apple OS's would be an entire waste of time unless they started charging for it, since Apple users just love to pay for their stuff - pay for it over, and over, and over again. Why else would they support that dawg?

Originally posted by nenothtu

Originally posted by MrInquisitive
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PirateBrowser_0.6b.exe???

Windows losers: get a real operating system!

But seriously, folks: if this is based on FF, why isn't it multi-platform?

My second sentence is but meant as a joke. I really wouldn't want this thread to devolve into a p*ssing between the various OS fanboy factions, but I am sincerely curious why it is only for Windows machines. Guess one can do the virtual machine thang, but why is that necessary?

Probably market share. It's just been released and they may not have found the time or talent to port it to 'nix. Windows takes the lion's share of the market currently, so it would make sense to release that first, to reach the widest audience.

Porting it to Apple OS's would be an entire waste of time unless they started charging for it, since Apple users just love to pay for their stuff - pay for it over, and over, and over again. Why else would they support that dawg?

Yeah, I've heard the market share argument before. Weak. I also said nothing about Apple per se. There are various Linux OS distributions too. More over, there are plenty of Mac OS users who use primarily or even solely free or donationware software. I understand releasing the Windows version first, but if it is just a version of FF, why not make it available for the other platforms that FF supports?

The presumptuousness of the Windows community always gets to me -- particularly when you go to some computer tutorial webpage article, which is obviously only for a Windows system, but the author does not explicitly say this.

Is this some sort of joke? Pirate Bay is one of the most monitored sources of downloads there is, pretty sure everyone out there knows that these days. Why in the world would anyone even think to go there in the first place?

Tor is also garbage and being looked into by the government because of Snowden (like it hasn't been already).

and I don't understand the point of this browser at all, they themselves say it's not supposed to provide anonymity, its just supposed to "circumvent censorship". Great, so if we go out and download it we can what - look at porn during study hall at highschool?

BTW. if you're "bypassing ISP filtering to access blocked web sites" guess what, you're using a PROXY

So... is this browser simply putting everyone on the same proxy / proxies (kinda like what TOR does), or what? Because... guess what, it's pretty damn easy to find out what those proxies are. It's also pretty damn easy to just set up whatever browser you want to use to use whatever proxy you want to use too, without bothering to download some "PirateBay©" browser (Just so you know, by not setting this up yourself, it provides the people who DO set the proxies up access to each and every single client - meaning anyone using their browser - whenever they feel like it; just a heads up).

Originally posted by Time2Think

Is this some sort of joke? Pirate Bay is one of the most monitored sources of downloads there is, pretty sure everyone out there knows that these days. Why in the world would anyone even think to go there in the first place?

Tor is also garbage and being looked into by the government because of Snowden (like it hasn't been already).

and I don't understand the point of this browser at all, they themselves say it's not supposed to provide anonymity, its just supposed to "circumvent censorship". Great, so if we go out and download it we can what - look at porn during study hall at highschool?

BTW. if you're "bypassing ISP filtering to access blocked web sites" guess what, you're using a PROXY

So... is this browser simply putting everyone on the same proxy / proxies (kinda like what TOR does), or what? Because... guess what, it's pretty damn easy to find out what those proxies are. It's also pretty damn easy to just set up whatever browser you want to use to use whatever proxy you want to use too, without bothering to download some "PirateBay©" browser

(Just so you know, by not setting this up yourself, it provides the people who DO set the proxies up access to each and every single client - meaning anyone using their browser - whenever they feel like it; just a heads up).

edit on 14-8-2013 by Time2Think because: added info.

TOR is a proxy but its more sophisticated than you believe to be.

TOR is a proxy but its more sophisticated than you believe to be.

Really now? And how might that be. I'm pretty sure I've used TOR before and know how it works.

Remember:

If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is..

Approach with caution is all I'm saying

My internet supplier has blocked Pirate Bay and just recently TheFirstRow both by court orders. This has not stopped me using the sites whenever i want and so far, ive heard nothing from my ISP. The way i see it, they've been told to block a certain URL - If there's a proxy available then the court should have to issue a further order to block the proxy link.

Censorship on the internet is wrong. They need to be going after the paedophiles not file sharers.