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PeerTube is a federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (WebTorrent) directly in the web browser.
- -- It is a free and open-source software, under the AGPLv3 licence. -
- -- For more information, please visit joinpeertube.org. -
-- PeerTube uses the BitTorrent protocol to share bandwidth between users. - This implies that your IP address is stored in the instance's BitTorrent tracker as long as you download or watch the video. + PeerTube is a self-hosted ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser.
-- In theory, someone with enough technical skills could create a script that tracks which IP is downloading which video. - In practice, this is much more difficult because: + It is free and open-source software, under AGPLv3 + licence.
-- The worst-case scenario of an average person spying on their friends is quite unlikely. - There are much more effective ways to get that kind of information. -
- -- The threats to privacy in YouTube are different from PeerTube's. - In YouTube's case, the platform gathers a huge amount of your personal information (not only your IP) to analyze them and track you. - Moreover, YouTube is owned by Google/Alphabet, a company that tracks you across many websites (via AdSense or Google Analytics). -
- -- 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 your IP in their connection logs: ISP/routers/trackers/CDN and more. - 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. - Thinking that removing P2P from PeerTube will give you back anonymity doesn't make sense. + For more information, please visit joinpeertube.org.
+- PeerTube is in its early stages, and want to deliver the best countermeasures possible by the time the stable is released. - In the meantime, we want to test different ideas related to this issue: -
++ PeerTube uses the BitTorrent protocol to share bandwidth between users by default to help lower the load on the server, + but ultimately leaves you the choice to switch back to regular streaming exclusively from the server of the video. What + follows applies only if you want to keep using the P2P mode of PeerTube. +
+ ++ The main threat to your privacy induced by BitTorrent lies in your IP address being stored in the instance's BitTorrent + tracker as long as you download or watch the video. +
+ ++ In theory, someone with enough technical skills could create a script that tracks which IP is downloading which video. + In practice, this is much more difficult because: +
+ ++ The worst-case scenario of an average person spying on their friends is quite unlikely. + There are much more effective ways to get that kind of information. +
+ ++ The threats to privacy with YouTube are different from PeerTube's. + In YouTube's case, the platform gathers a huge amount of your personal information (not only your IP) to analyze them and track you. + Moreover, YouTube is owned by Google/Alphabet, a company that tracks you across many websites (via AdSense or Google Analytics). +
+ ++ 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 + your IP in their connection logs: ISP/routers/trackers/CDN and more. + 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. + Thinking that removing P2P from PeerTube will give you back anonymity doesn't make sense. +
+ ++ PeerTube wants to deliver the best countermeasures possible, to give you more choice + and render attacks less likely. Here is what we put in place so far: +
+ ++ Ultimately, remember you can always disable P2P by toggling it in the video player, or just by disabling + WebRTC in your browser. +
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