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| Initial release | 10 August 2013; 11 years ago (2013-08-10) |
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| Stable release | 0.8 (9.0.9) / 13 April 2020; 4 years ago (2020-04-13) |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| License | Open source |
| Website | The Pirate Bay: piratebrowser Team-LiL: Pirate Tor Browser |
PirateBrowser is aweb browser byThe Pirate Bay used to circumventInternet censorship.
PirateBrowser was released on 10 August 2013 on the tenth anniversary of The Pirate Bay.[2] It is a bundle ofFirefox Portable 23, theFoxyProxyaddon for Firefox, and theVidalia Tor client with some proxy configurations to speed up page loading. According toTorrentFreak, it had been downloaded more than 100,000 times in its first three days,[3] 1,000,000 times by October 2013, 2,500,000 times by 6 January 2014, and 5,000,000 times by 16 May 2014.[4][5][6][7][8]
"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"[3][9]
piratebrowser.com[10][2] was suspended around December 2015.[1]
The browser circumvents site-blocking in countries including, according to the Pirate Bay Web site,Belgium,Denmark,Finland,Iran,Ireland,Italy,The Netherlands,North Korea and theUnited Kingdom. This allows users to access some websites otherwise blocked, usually by government ban or threat of legal action byInternet service providers (ISPs) in these countries.
"The goal is to create a browser-like client to circumvent censorship, including domain blocking, domain confiscation, IP-blocking. This will be accomplished by sharing all of a site’s indexed data as P2P downloadable packages, that are then browsed/rendered locally"[11]
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However, on its 10th anniversary they are now releasing a special "PirateBrowser" which effectively bypasses any ISP blockade.
Do you know any people who can't access TPB or other torrents-sites because they are blocked? Recommend PirateBrowser to them. It's a simple one-click browser that circumvents censorship and blockades and makes the site instantly available and accessible. No bundled ad-ware, toolbars or other crap, just a Pre-configured Firefox browser. A nice present to TPB and our users on this day, our 10yr birthday!