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1 | <div class="root"> |
2 | <h1 i18n class="about-peertube-title"> | |
3 | What is PeerTube? | |
4 | </h1> | |
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d8232bac | 8 | <div class="description"> |
1eb23e12 | 9 | <p i18n> |
d8232bac | 10 | PeerTube is a self hosted federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P directly in the web browser. |
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11 | </p> |
12 | ||
1eb23e12 | 13 | <p i18n> |
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14 | It is a free and open-source software, under the <a href="https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/LICENSE">AGPLv3 |
15 | licence</a>. | |
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16 | </p> |
17 | ||
1eb23e12 | 18 | <p i18n> |
d8232bac | 19 | For more information, please visit <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://joinpeertube.org">joinpeertube.org</a>. |
1eb23e12 | 20 | </p> |
d8232bac | 21 | </div> |
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23 | <div class="documentation"> |
24 | ||
25 | <div class="card"> | |
26 | <div class="card-body"> | |
27 | <h5 class="card-title"> | |
28 | <a i18n target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/#/use-setup-account">Use PeerTube | |
29 | documentation</a> | |
30 | </h5> | |
31 | ||
32 | <div i18n class="card-text"> | |
33 | Discover how to setup your account, what is a channel, how to create a playlist and more! | |
34 | </div> | |
35 | </div> | |
36 | </div> | |
37 | ||
38 | <div class="card"> | |
39 | <div class="card-body"> | |
40 | <h5 class="card-title"> | |
41 | <a i18n target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/#/use-third-party-application">PeerTube | |
42 | Applications</a> | |
43 | </h5> | |
44 | ||
45 | <div i18n class="card-text"> | |
46 | Discover unofficial Android applications or browser addons! | |
47 | </div> | |
48 | </div> | |
49 | </div> | |
50 | ||
51 | <div class="card"> | |
52 | <div class="card-body"> | |
53 | <h5 class="card-title"> | |
54 | <a i18n target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/#/contribute-getting-started">Contribute on | |
55 | PeerTube</a> | |
56 | </h5> | |
57 | ||
58 | <div i18n class="card-text"> | |
59 | Want to help to improve PeerTube? You can translate the web interface, give your feedback or directly contribute to the code! | |
60 | </div> | |
61 | </div> | |
62 | </div> | |
63 | </div> | |
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65 | <div class="privacy-contributors"> |
66 | <my-about-peertube-contributors></my-about-peertube-contributors> | |
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68 | <div class="p2p-privacy"> |
69 | <h3 class="section-title"> | |
70 | <div class="anchor" id="privacy"></div> <!-- privacy anchor --> | |
71 | <ng-container i18n>P2P & Privacy</ng-container> | |
72 | </h3> | |
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73 | |
74 | <p i18n> | |
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75 | PeerTube uses the BitTorrent protocol to share bandwidth between users by default to help lower the load on the server, |
76 | but ultimately leaves you the choice to switch back to regular streaming exclusively from the server of the video. What | |
77 | follows applies only if you want to keep using the P2P mode of PeerTube. | |
78 | </p> | |
79 | ||
80 | <p> | |
81 | The main threat to your privacy induced by BitTorrent lies in your IP address being stored in the instance's BitTorrent | |
82 | tracker as long as you download or watch the video. | |
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83 | </p> |
84 | ||
85 | <h6 i18n class="p2p-privacy-title">What are the consequences?</h6> | |
86 | ||
87 | <p i18n> | |
88 | In theory, someone with enough technical skills could create a script that tracks which IP is downloading which video. | |
89 | In practice, this is much more difficult because: | |
90 | </p> | |
91 | ||
92 | <ul> | |
93 | <li i18n> | |
94 | An HTTP request has to be sent on each tracker for each video to spy. | |
95 | If we want to spy all PeerTube's videos, we have to send as many requests as there are videos (so potentially a lot) | |
96 | </li> | |
97 | ||
98 | <li i18n> | |
99 | For each request sent, the tracker returns random peers at a limited number. | |
100 | For instance, if there are 1000 peers in the swarm and the tracker sends only 20 peers for each request, there must be at least 50 | |
5411da31 | 101 | requests sent to know every peer in the swarm |
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102 | </li> |
103 | ||
104 | <li i18n> | |
105 | Those requests have to be sent regularly to know who starts/stops watching a video. It is easy to detect that kind of behaviour | |
106 | </li> | |
107 | ||
108 | <li i18n> | |
109 | If an IP address is stored in the tracker, it doesn't mean that the person behind the IP (if this person exists) has watched the | |
110 | video | |
111 | </li> | |
112 | ||
113 | <li i18n> | |
114 | The IP address is a vague information: usually, it regularly changes and can represent many persons or entities | |
115 | </li> | |
116 | ||
117 | <li i18n> | |
118 | Web peers are not publicly accessible: because we use WebRTC inside the web browser (<a href="https://webtorrent.io/">with the | |
119 | WebTorrent library</a>), the protocol is different from classic BitTorrent. | |
120 | When you are in a web browser, you send a signal containing your IP address to the tracker that will randomly choose other peers | |
121 | to forward the information to. | |
122 | See <a href="https://github.com/yciabaud/webtorrent/blob/beps/bep_webrtc.rst">this document</a> for more information | |
123 | </li> | |
124 | </ul> | |
125 | ||
126 | <p i18n> | |
127 | The worst-case scenario of an average person spying on their friends is quite unlikely. | |
128 | There are much more effective ways to get that kind of information. | |
129 | </p> | |
130 | ||
131 | <h6 i18n class="p2p-privacy-title">How does PeerTube compare with YouTube?</h6> | |
132 | ||
133 | <p i18n> | |
a6f01388 | 134 | The threats to privacy with YouTube are different from PeerTube's. |
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135 | In YouTube's case, the platform gathers a huge amount of your personal information (not only your IP) to analyze them and track you. |
136 | Moreover, YouTube is owned by Google/Alphabet, a company that tracks you across many websites (via AdSense or Google Analytics). | |
137 | </p> | |
138 | ||
139 | <h6 i18n class="p2p-privacy-title">What can I do to limit the exposure of my IP address?</h6> | |
140 | ||
141 | <p i18n> | |
142 | Your IP address is public so every time you consult a website, there is a number of actors (in addition to the final website) seeing | |
143 | your IP in their connection logs: ISP/routers/trackers/CDN and more. | |
144 | PeerTube is transparent about it: we warn you that if you want to keep your IP private, you must use a VPN or Tor Browser. | |
145 | Thinking that removing P2P from PeerTube will give you back anonymity doesn't make sense. | |
146 | </p> | |
147 | ||
148 | <h6 i18n class="p2p-privacy-title">What will be done to mitigate this problem?</h6> | |
149 | ||
150 | <p i18n> | |
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151 | PeerTube wants to deliver the best countermeasures possible, to give you more choice |
152 | and render attacks less likely. Here is what we put in place so far: | |
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153 | </p> |
154 | ||
155 | <ul> | |
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156 | <li i18n>We set a limit to the number of peers sent by the tracker</li> |
157 | <li i18n>We set a limit on the request frequency received by the tracker</li> | |
158 | <li i18n>Allow instance admins to disable P2P from the administration interface</li> | |
159 | <li i18n>Automatic video redundancy from some instances: one doesn't know if the IP downloaded the video on purpose or if it a server</li> | |
d8232bac | 160 | </ul> |
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161 | |
162 | <p i18n> | |
163 | Ultimately, remember you can always disable P2P by toggling it in the video player, or just by disabling | |
164 | WebRTC in your browser. | |
165 | </p> | |
d8232bac | 166 | </div> |
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