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by ranger_danger 380 days ago
> No servers

Except an impressively large amount of people in the world are behind symmetrical or CGNAT and would require a TURN server.

Because of this, I've personally never gotten a single p2p/WebRTC site to work with another person.
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goodpanda 379 days ago
You do have a valid point that TURN is sometimes needed but not ALWAYS right?

My understanding is that ICE tries to establish a direct p2p connection between clients and only if there is no path, it uses TURN?

In either case, the files definitely don't go through my servers and are not stored anywhere and are e2e encrypted which really matters the most.

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ranger_danger 378 days ago
Right, many people can connect directly, but also many cannot.

And because a large number of people do need TURN (always), coupled with the majority of WebRTC apps not properly supporting TURN (giving no way to set your own details, or provide a free one, of which there really aren't any reliable public ones)... I've basically never seen it work.

No p2p WebRTC app I have ever tried with a friend has worked.

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