Yo-ho, yo-ho, censorship-free web searching for me.

If you're looking for a quick and easy way to circumvent any filters or blocks that your ISP (or country) has put into place on your Web browsing, The Pirate Bay might have a solution for you. As part of the commemoration around the site's ten-year anniversary, which it officially celebrated yesterday, The Pirate Bay has officially released its own web browser. Sort-of.

"Do you know any people who can't access TPB or other torrents-sites because they are blocked? Recommend PirateBrowser to them. It's a simple one-click browser that circumvents censorship and blockades and makes the site instantly available and accessible. No bundled ad-ware, toolbars or other crap, just a Pre-configured Firefox browser," wrote The Pirate Bay's "Winston" in a blog post yesterday.

One can pick up the PirateBrowser via the app's official site  of course, it's downloadable via BitTorrent, but there's also a direct link to a copy of the browser on the PirateBrowser's site. As The Pirate Bay's blog post notes, the browser itself is a simple combination of Firefox Portable, the foxyproxy addon, and the Tor client, in addition to a little configuration tweaking that allows the browser to "circumvent censorship" in a host of countries that might otherwise forbid one's attempts to access parts of the Web.

So, if you're living in places like Iran, North Korea, the United Kingdom, or others, PirateBrowser is a powerful tool that you can use to access sites likes The Pirate Bay (go figure), EZTV, and others. And if you're not even sure what normally forbidden sites you would want to check out once you've found a way to poke through your ISP or your country's filters, PirateBrowser has you covered there as well. The browser comes with a host of bookmarks to various, likely blocked sites, including The Pirate Bay, EZTV, KickassTorrents, and others.

It's important to note that the PirateBrowser doesn't offer anonymous browsing. While it taps into the Tor network to perform its censorship-bypassing, it's not as strong of a browser  privacy-wise  as a full-fledged Tor Browser. In other words, don't expect that your exploits in the places of the Web you can't normally access will be completely unnoticed. The PirateBrowser site suggests that you look into a VPN if you're trying to better conceal your browsing habits.

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