PirateBrowser is designed to circumvent the censorship imposed on Internet users

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Launched on Saturday, PirateBrowser has sailed into the hands of more than 100,000 users via Pirate Bay's direct download link, says blog site TorrentFreak. The official torrent file itself has been shared by more than 5,000 people.

PirateBrowser is designed to circumvent the censorship imposed on Internet users by certain governments. As such, the browser allows users to access Web sites that would ordinarily be blocked. However, it does not provide anonymity