Also, Internet Explorer's SmartScreen Filter flag's the download as unsafe, so you'll have to bypass that protection if you want to proceed. The download is just 29MB, but the Pirate Bay server I downloaded it from was quite slow (taking more than an hour!) so you may be better off taking the BitTorrent route. As you might expect, one way to get the new browser bundle is to download it from BitTorrent, but you can also simply download the installer as a self-extracting archive. (Note that a privacy/security issue that came up with a version of Tor's browser bundle has been updated to plug the hole.)Īt this point, PirateBrowser is Windows-only, though I'd be surprised if Mac and Ubuntu versions aren't on the way. If you're actually interested in browsing anonymously, check out the actual Tor Project (Opens in a new window). The organization's tagline for the product is even "No more censorship!" And despite this lofty sentiment, a more likely ulterior motive for the browser is simply to give people access to the Pirate Bay's torrent-tracking site so as to avoid paying for digital content. As the organization's site for the software puts it, PirateBrowser is "a bundle package of the Tor client (Vidalia), Firefox Portable browser (with foxyproxy addon) and some custom configs that allows you to circumvent censorship." But it doesn't unblock any site you might want to visit-just a group of twenty-odd BitTorrent-related sites. PirateBrowser isn't at all about anonymous browsing, even though it uses the Tor network, which is intended to anonymize browsing.
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