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Proxy Raye: an alternative frontend for adult websites (beehaw.org)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by desiringmachine@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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SEX SEX SEX PROXY ALT-FRONTEND

Now that I have your attention...

Proxy Raye is a self-hostable alternative frontend for browsing adult websites without tracking or ads.

Think Invidious for porn.

Working demo here:

https://proxyraye.copyriot.xyz

Repo (codeberg):

https://codeberg.org/lamacchinadesiderante/proxyraye

Currently (v0.4.0) supported platforms are XVideos, XNXX, PornHub (experimental), YouPorn, RedTube.

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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Hm, from a privacy point of view, what's the difference between this, vs. a private/incognito tab with a pi-hole?

I mean:

pi-hole eats the ads
private/incognito eats the cookies
the sites can still do basic tracking via the video feed itself

As for functional differences.... right now, the player seems to be missing the skip ±10sec feature, and the full-screen with rotate.

On the other hand... multi-site private bookmarking, would be interesting.

[–] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 2 points 6 months ago

Fingerprinting from the original website is easy, the frontend will have a fingerprint as well but it should be shared by all the users without exposing their browsers. Better privacy therefore.

[–] desiringmachine@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

With incognito mode data is still fetched client-side: the browser still has to send requests directly to the target platform. Plus the origin platform will still set session cookies.

Instead PR (and as far as I know all other alt-frontends) fetches data and does scraping server-side, so that the browser never contacts the platform directly.

The idea is that you can host these alt-frontends wherever you wants (eg. on a remote VPS) outside of your network and they deal with the platforms as intermediaries, and people just have to open the proxy website and browse for content...