Notorious torrent-sharing site The Pirate Bay is 10 years old today, and they got you a little something. They launched PirateBrowser, a custom Firefox browser that skirts Internet censorship and lets you access the Pirate Bay from anywhere. We should at least send them a card or something.

PirateBrowser is meant to focus more on unrestricted access to the Internet than it is on being able to download new episode of Breaking Bad without paying for them, but one tends to be a function of the other. There are countries that limit citizen access to certain sites, and yes, The Pirate Bay is frequently one of those sites, but so are Wikipedia and YouTube. PirateBrowser has customized proxy settings that let users get around those blocks.

What it does not do is let you surf the web anonymously. For that, you need a browser like Tor. Thankfully, Tor comes bundled with PirateBrowser.

If you’re into dodging Internet censorship, head over to the new PirateBrowser site. If that’s not your thing, maybe go play the pirate ship level of Super Mario Bros. 3 because if you’re like me, all you’ve been doing during this story is thinking about the phrase “Pirate Bowser” and giggling.

(PirateBrowser via Business Insider, image via svennevenn)

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