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10 PeerTube is a self-hosted ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser.
14 It is free and open-source software, under
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19 For more information, please visit
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32 Discover how to setup your account, what is a channel, how to create a playlist and more!
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56 Want to help to improve PeerTube? You can translate the web interface, give your feedback or directly contribute to the code!
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>P2P & Privacy
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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.
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.
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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:
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)
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
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95 requests sent to know every peer in the swarm
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
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
108 The IP address is a vague information: usually, it regularly changes and can represent many persons or entities
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
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"https://github.com/yciabaud/webtorrent/blob/beps/bep_webrtc.rst">this document
</a> for more information
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.
124 <h3 i18n
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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).
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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.
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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:
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>We set a limit to the number of peers sent by the tracker
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>We set a limit on the request frequency received by the tracker
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>Allow instance admins to disable P2P from the administration interface
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155 Ultimately, remember you can always disable P2P by toggling it in the video player, or just by disabling
156 WebRTC in your browser.