client/src/app/+about/about-peertube/about-peertube.component.html

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   2   <h1 i18n class="fs-3 text-center fw-semibold mb-3">
   3     This website is powered by PeerTube
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  10       PeerTube is a self-hosted ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser.
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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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  18     <p i18n>
  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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  32           Discover how to setup your account, what is a channel, how to create a playlist and more!
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  34       </div>
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  39         <div class="card-title">
  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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  46       </div>
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  51         <div class="card-title">
  52           <a i18n class="link-orange" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/getting-started">Contribute on PeerTube</a>
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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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  64       <div class="anchor" id="privacy"></div> <!-- privacy anchor -->
  65       <ng-container i18n>P2P & Privacy</ng-container>
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  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.
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  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.
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  78
  79     <h3 i18n class="fs-5">What are the consequences?</h3>
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  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:
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  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)
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  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
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  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>
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 107       <li i18n>
 108         The IP address is a vague information: usually, it regularly changes and can represent many persons or entities
 109       </li>
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 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>
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 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>
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 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).
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 132     <h3 i18n class="p2p-privacy-title">What can I do to limit the exposure of my IP address?</h3>
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 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>
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 141     <h3 i18n class="p2p-privacy-title">What will be done to mitigate this problem?</h3>
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 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>
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 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>
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