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Pirate Bay Releases ‘Pirate Browser’ to Thwart Censorship
- alan_cx 13y agoCool, but why not Opera in off-road mode?
- L4mppu 13y agoBecause opera is just reskinned chrome.
- gst 13y agoFirefox is open-source and can be legally modified. Opera isn't.
- alan_cx 13y agoTrue but not relevant. This isn't a privacy thing, its just purely about accessing pirate bay and other blocked sites. So open source and so on is irrelevant in that goal. Edit: Quote added. "“This browser is just to circumvent censorship, to remove limits on accessing sites governments don’t want you to know about,” The Pirate Bay notes."
- gst 13y agoDoes the Opera license allow to distribute modified versions setup to automatically use Tor for .onion URLs, without getting special permissions from Opera Software? In addition: Why Opera? I don't see any significant advantages over Firefox. There are probably more users who are familiar with Firefox than with Opera.
- shocks 13y agoAlso, being open source, one can evaluate the source code and check the "secure browser" isn't leaking secrets.
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- anu_gupta 13y agoMaybe they just wanted to use Firefox. Why not explain why they should use Opera?
- 3pt14159 13y agoBecause some people don't use un-free software.
- drivingmenuts 13y agoLooks like they're basing it on previous work done by the Tor Browser Bundle (which actually does have Mac and Linux clients).
- northwest 13y ago> They are also working on a special BitTorrent-powered browser, which lets users store and distribute The Pirate Bay and other websites on their own. Great idea. If this came as a plugin, it would probably spread faster. (This is btw how I think any next-gen social network should work - no more central servers, everything distributed.)
- reustle 13y agoWe could call it Diaspora!
- teddyh 13y agoThe link shown in the screenshot is http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/ http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/ but I thought TPB's "TOR hidden service" link was http://jntlesnev5o7zysa.onion/ http://jntlesnev5o7zysa.onion/ . I wonder what's going on.
- sp332 13y agoYou can use tor2web to (slowly) browse .onion sites. https://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.tor2web.org/ https://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.tor2web.org/ looks like TPB to me.
- teddyh 13y agoBut that was my point; both sites look like TPB. Which is the real one and which is a potentially logging proxy?
- jacquesm 13y agoWhat guarantees do you have that the real one doesn't log?
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- teddyh 13y agoOK, none. But at least the real one has a proven history of not injecting malware. Or something, I don't know. Logging was just an example of what a malicious middleman might do.
- benologist 13y agoThe real one that peddles trashy spyware, scamware and toolbars for revenue?
- teddyh 13y ago
- angersock 13y agoI've frequently heard complaints that bittorrent folks using Tor put unhelpful strain on the network--is the distribution of this browser going to be a problem in that way?
- sb057 13y agoThis has nothing to do with routing Bittorent traffic.
- aj700 13y agoYes, the package as is will not route the bittorent traffic over tor, but since this is for people who don't even know how to use proxies, some of them will probably start configuring their torrent clients to use the same proxies.
- haakon 13y agoIf they don't even know how to use proxies, I somehow doubt they'd even consider fiddling about in their BitTorrent client's proxy settings. How would they even know what to put in there?
- rob_b 13y agoChecked out YouTube lately? Some content isn't bad, but there seems to be just as much noise that gives horrible advice and no one should waste their time watching.
- LiveTheDream 13y agoPotentially stupid question – how is this different from the Tor browser bundle?
- sb057 13y agoIt appears that this is designed to prevent censorship, as opposed to Tor's broader goal of anonymization.
- AsymetricCom 13y agoYou can't trust it. Seriously, TPB is constantly full of spam and exploits inside of spam and spammy exploits. Why would you ever run an executable from TPB? What a joke.
- quasque 13y agoIt's not that much different, just a rebranded version with a configuration that prioritises speed over anonymity (by permitting single hop relays so it effectively works like a normal http proxy), and doesn't select exit nodes in countries that block their website.
- agumonkey 13y agoThey should have named it after a real pirate ship : http://www.noblesandcourtiers.org/famous-pirate-ships.htm http://www.noblesandcourtiers.org/famous-pirate-ships.htm Delivery sounds fine.