Pirate Browser

[SalsasySauces]

I am using Pirate Browser 1.00b and I have started to receive a lot of messages saying that the TOR browser is out of date and it is nor recommended to continue using it. Also from the TOR site Vidalia has been discontinued and a new TOR browser is being used. Is it possible to just upgrade the existing 100b installation by adding the new TOR browser exe in place of the existing one?. If not when will Pirate Bay be upgrading their software

[᠎]

There are no plans to upgrade the software. The idea behind PirateBrowser was to show the masses how easily blocks could be bypassed. It was only ever a pre-configured bundle of pre-existing products, not a product in it's own right.

Rather than trying to patch the installation, I'd recommend simply replacing it with the Tor Browser and using our onion address. ie. uninstall Vidalia and Pirate Browser, download and install the latest version of Tor Browser, and bookmark http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/

[System Folder]

You can get the Tor Browser from here: https://www.torproject.org

Just click the big, purple Download Tor button. Then another big, purple, button labeled Download Tor Browser.

[System Folder]

I know for a fact that TPB has a onion address, because I used it for most of the day today.

http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/

[SalsasySauces]

Thanks for the info I will change to the Tor browser.

[Black_Knyght]

Will this allow the use of Pirate Bay and other torrents sites?

I've read that Tor blocks the use of any kind of file-sharing site, so at first glance it seems counter-intuitive to stop using the Pirate Browser for a Tor browser that won't allow for downloading torrents.

[NokTham]

You'll be able to access file sharing websites and download .torrents, as for magnet links, TOR is a PITA when it comes to handle them, you'll have to copy the magnet link and post it in your bittorrent client.

[Sid]

I've read that Tor blocks the use of any kind of file-sharing site

You've mis-read, or read something written by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about.

There are two parts to torrenting. Broadly:
- the "torrent discovery" phase, where you use your web browser to find and download .torrent files from websites;
- and the "download" phase, where you use your torrent client to download the files described within the .torrent files from the swarm.

Pirate Browser, which makes use of Tor, is used in the first phase. Neither Tor nor Pirate Browser blocks the use of any kind of site.

The second phase shouldn't be run via Tor but that's irrelevant here as Pirate Browser has nothing to do with the second phase.

[bobozo]

`Perhaps to clarify a bit.

TOR is great for communications and small files. Bandwidth is normally restricted (so downloading would be SLOWW). Great for browsing, grabbing torrents/magnet links. Use a BROWSER with it to *find* torrents.

File downloading/streaming, etc require massive amounts of bandwidth that TOR simply cannot handle.
This requires a CLIENT such as uTorrent, Vuze, etc. And that should NOT be configured for TOR. For that a VPN would be recommended.( Last I knew Kryptotel was offering free VPN services. Here it still works, though havent been billed in ages. )

[Black_Knyght]

`Perhaps to clarify a bit.

TOR is great for communications and small files. Bandwidth is normally restricted (so downloading would be SLOWW). Great for browsing, grabbing torrents/magnet links. Use a BROWSER with it to *find* torrents.

File downloading/streaming, etc require massive amounts of bandwidth that TOR simply cannot handle.
This requires a CLIENT such as uTorrent, Vuze, etc. And that should NOT be configured for TOR. For that a VPN would be recommended.( Last I knew Kryptotel was offering free VPN services. Here it still works, though havent been billed in ages. )

As I'm set up at the moment, I have the Pirate Browser 1.0b, a VPN, and µTorrent 2.2.1 build 25273.

The Pirate Browser keeps informing me that my Tor is out of date, hence my attempts to find an updated solution. As I understand things, my µTorrent should be fine as is, as should my VPN, but I'm unclear about the Pirate Browser.

It is worthwhile, or even a viable idea, to replace it with a Tor browser? And for someone NOT terribly savvy with the arcane workings of Tor is it even worth the trouble, or would it be biting off more trouble than it'd be worth?