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2 | <h1 i18n class="fs-3 text-center fw-semibold mb-3"> | |
3 | This website is powered by PeerTube | |
4 | </h1> | |
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8 | <div class="text-center"> | |
9 | <p i18n> | |
10 | PeerTube is a self-hosted ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser. | |
11 | </p> | |
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13 | <p i18n> | |
14 | It is free and open-source software, under <a class="link-orange" href="https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/LICENSE">AGPLv3 | |
15 | licence</a>. | |
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19 | For more information, please visit <a class="link-orange" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://joinpeertube.org">joinpeertube.org</a>. | |
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28 | <a i18n class="link-orange" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/setup-account">Use PeerTube documentation</a> | |
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31 | <div i18n class="card-text"> | |
32 | Discover how to setup your account, what is a channel, how to create a playlist and more! | |
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40 | <a i18n class="link-orange" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/third-party-application">PeerTube Applications</a> | |
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44 | Discover unofficial Android applications or browser addons! | |
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52 | <a i18n class="link-orange" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/getting-started">Contribute on PeerTube</a> | |
53 | </div> | |
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55 | <div i18n class="card-text"> | |
56 | Want to help to improve PeerTube? You can translate the web interface, give your feedback or directly contribute to the code! | |
57 | </div> | |
58 | </div> | |
59 | </div> | |
60 | </div> | |
61 | ||
62 | <div class="d-flex flex-column"> | |
63 | <h2 class="mb-4 mt-5 text-center fs-5 fw-semibold"> | |
64 | <div class="anchor" id="privacy"></div> <!-- privacy anchor --> | |
65 | <ng-container i18n>P2P & Privacy</ng-container> | |
66 | </h2> | |
67 | ||
68 | <p i18n> | |
69 | PeerTube uses the BitTorrent protocol to share bandwidth between users by default to help lower the load on the server, | |
70 | but ultimately leaves you the choice to switch back to regular streaming exclusively from the server of the video. What | |
71 | follows applies only if you want to keep using the P2P mode of PeerTube. | |
72 | </p> | |
73 | ||
74 | <p i18n> | |
75 | The main threat to your privacy induced by BitTorrent lies in your IP address being stored in the instance's BitTorrent | |
76 | tracker as long as you download or watch the video. | |
77 | </p> | |
78 | ||
79 | <h3 i18n class="fs-5">What are the consequences?</h3> | |
80 | ||
81 | <p i18n> | |
82 | In theory, someone with enough technical skills could create a script that tracks which IP is downloading which video. | |
83 | In practice, this is much more difficult because: | |
84 | </p> | |
85 | ||
86 | <ul> | |
87 | <li i18n> | |
88 | An HTTP request has to be sent on each tracker for each video to spy. | |
89 | If we want to spy all PeerTube's videos, we have to send as many requests as there are videos (so potentially a lot) | |
90 | </li> | |
91 | ||
92 | <li i18n> | |
93 | For each request sent, the tracker returns random peers at a limited number. | |
94 | 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 | |
95 | requests sent to know every peer in the swarm | |
96 | </li> | |
97 | ||
98 | <li i18n> | |
99 | Those requests have to be sent regularly to know who starts/stops watching a video. It is easy to detect that kind of behaviour | |
100 | </li> | |
101 | ||
102 | <li i18n> | |
103 | 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 | |
104 | video | |
105 | </li> | |
106 | ||
107 | <li i18n> | |
108 | The IP address is a vague information: usually, it regularly changes and can represent many persons or entities | |
109 | </li> | |
110 | ||
111 | <li i18n> | |
112 | Web peers are not publicly accessible: because we use the websocket transport, the protocol is different from classic BitTorrent tracker. | |
113 | When you are in a web browser, you send a signal containing your IP address to the tracker that will randomly choose other peers | |
114 | to forward the information to. | |
115 | See <a class="link-orange" href="https://github.com/yciabaud/webtorrent/blob/beps/bep_webrtc.rst">this document</a> for more information | |
116 | </li> | |
117 | </ul> | |
118 | ||
119 | <p i18n> | |
120 | The worst-case scenario of an average person spying on their friends is quite unlikely. | |
121 | There are much more effective ways to get that kind of information. | |
122 | </p> | |
123 | ||
124 | <h3 i18n class="p2p-privacy-title">How does PeerTube compare with YouTube?</h3> | |
125 | ||
126 | <p i18n> | |
127 | The threats to privacy with YouTube are different from PeerTube's. | |
128 | In YouTube's case, the platform gathers a huge amount of your personal information (not only your IP) to analyze them and track you. | |
129 | Moreover, YouTube is owned by Google/Alphabet, a company that tracks you across many websites (via AdSense or Google Analytics). | |
130 | </p> | |
131 | ||
132 | <h3 i18n class="p2p-privacy-title">What can I do to limit the exposure of my IP address?</h3> | |
133 | ||
134 | <p i18n> | |
135 | 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 | |
136 | your IP in their connection logs: ISP/routers/trackers/CDN and more. | |
137 | 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. | |
138 | Thinking that removing P2P from PeerTube will give you back anonymity doesn't make sense. | |
139 | </p> | |
140 | ||
141 | <h3 i18n class="p2p-privacy-title">What will be done to mitigate this problem?</h3> | |
142 | ||
143 | <p i18n> | |
144 | PeerTube wants to deliver the best countermeasures possible, to give you more choice | |
145 | and render attacks less likely. Here is what we put in place so far: | |
146 | </p> | |
147 | ||
148 | <ul> | |
149 | <li i18n>We set a limit to the number of peers sent by the tracker</li> | |
150 | <li i18n>We set a limit on the request frequency received by the tracker</li> | |
151 | <li i18n>Allow instance admins to disable P2P from the administration interface</li> | |
152 | </ul> | |
153 | ||
154 | <p i18n> | |
155 | Ultimately, remember you can always disable P2P by toggling it in the video player, or just by disabling | |
156 | WebRTC in your browser. | |
157 | </p> | |
158 | </div> | |
159 | </div> |