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The Pirate Bay Launches Browser To Evade ISP Blockades

Posted by timothy on from the speak-friend-and-enter dept.

hypnosec writes "The Pirate Bay, on its 10th anniversary, has released 'Pirate Browser,' which it claims would allow people to access The Pirate Bay and other such blocked sites. The 'Pirate Browser' is a fully functional browser that currently works with Windows. ... According to the Pirate Browser website, the browser is basically a bundled package consisting of the Tor client and Firefox Portable browser. The package also includes some tools meant for evading censorship in countries like UK, Finland, Denmark, and Iran among others."

6 of 118 comments (clear)

  1. As always... by djupedal · · Score: 5, Informative

    The internet sees any blockage as an outage and works to avoid it.

    1. Re:As always... by pipatron · · Score: 4, Informative

      It's "just" the tor browser bundle and firefox portable, they link to both, where sources can be had. The custom configs are (naturally) included in this release for inspection. It seems that they configure Tor to be as fast as possible while removing some possible anonymity, and they block certain countries as exits to remove censorship. Then they have a dynamic proxy to automatically route torrent sites through Tor.

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  2. Re:Evading from... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    That moment when you realize your nation is mentioned in the same sentence as one of the most backwards places on Earth.

    *facepalm*

    The Netherlands is missing from this list. So is China...

  3. There is one. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    The TOR Project has had the bundle for a while.

  4. Re:What could have been pretty cool.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    The problem with that would be the time it takes to begin download, rather than the download itself. With HTTP, you already know where to download from so the setup time is relatively miniscule; with bittorrent, you have to turn the metadata into a location and then turn around and connect to there. People already complain about how slow HTTP is, so I'd hate to see the reactions to this new hybrid.

  5. And why should people trust it by DrXym · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Pirate Bay hosts some of the sleaziest and malicious advertising banners of any web site. Ads that pop up masquerading as system alerts, porn ads, ads which trigger downloads of files like executables and apks. This is not a site that I would trust in any way to provide the browsing or download software.