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== External links ==
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* {{Official website|https://piratebrowser.com/}}
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Revision as of 03:46, 31 May 2015

PirateBrowser
Initial release10 August 2013 (2013-08-10)
Stable release
1.0b
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows
LicenseOpen source
Websitepiratebrowser.com

PirateBrowser is an Internet browser by The Pirate Bay used to circumvent Internet censorship. It was released on 10 August 2013 on the tenth anniversary of The Pirate Bay.[1] It is a bundle of Firefox Portable, the FoxyProxy addon, and the Vidalia Tor client with some custom configurations. According to TorrentFreak it had been downloaded more than 2,500,000 times by October 2013.[2]

The browser circumvents site-blocking in countries including, according to the Pirate Bay Web site, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Iran, Ireland, Italy, North Korea and the United Kingdom. This allows users to access some websites otherwise blocked, usually by government ban or threat of legal action, by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in these countries.

References

  1. ^ "Pirate Bay Releases Pirate Browser to Thwart Censorship". TorrentFreak. 10 August 2013.
  2. ^ "Pirate Bay's Anti-Censorship Browser Clocks 2,500,000 Downloads". TorrentFreak. 19 October 2013.