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posted by martyb on Saturday May 17 2014, @01:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the dare-ya-to-pirate-this dept.

In celebration of its 10th anniversary last August, The Pirate Bay presented a gift to its users: the PirateBrowser. The browser is based on Firefox and utilizes the Tor network to obfuscate people's locations. It is meant purely as a tool to circumvent censorship and unlike the Tor browser it does not provide any anonymity for its users. Recently, PirateBrowser achieved a new milestone more than five million people have downloaded a copy of the tool from the official website. That's an average of more than half a million downloads per month.

There have been no updates to the software since its first release. This will change in the coming weeks: the Pirate Bay team will push out an update soon with upgraded versions of the software. In addition, the new release will have support for social media sites to serve users in countries where these services are restricted or blocked.

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by cykros on Sunday May 18 2014, @05:50AM

    by cykros (989) on Sunday May 18 2014, @05:50AM (#44779)

    Linux users are smart enough to look after themselves? Have you SEEN the new breed of Linux noobs weened on Ubuntu and Mint? While the distros themselves may have their place, they're certainly good at coddling the user to the point of never needing to learn a goddamn thing. Wanna give someone their first Linux distro? Give them the Slackware DVD, and point them to the wiki, and linuxquestions.net. They'll likely thank you for it later.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 18 2014, @06:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 18 2014, @06:41AM (#44790)

    AC modding parent way up. +6 Spectacular