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.

        • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          6·
          1 month ago

          Porn star called roxy raye! Super hot, has done some extreme anal stuff that honestly inspired me a bit to try it, she’s done some kinkier stuff as well, I’m honestly more an erotica person than a pornstar person but definitely a fan of her. Unfortunately she was in a really serious car accident. She’s ok afaik thankfully, but doesn’t do porn any more. Really should have recognized the gender envy from watching her for what it was but hey

          • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
            2·
            1 month ago

            I’m not really aware of anyone still shooting porn after 15 years outside of HKJ, and if I’m being honest, I’m not entirely sure she was active yet … it was a different time.

            It was also damn near impossible to monetize back then (self-host, find payment processor overseas that took 30% minimum, self-advertise), especially anything outside of male-centric boring shit you’ve seen a thousand times, which led to more of a discovery process and a tighter-knit community for those shooting or appearing in kink.

            I’m glad she’s doing OK after just an event, but I never found myself wondering why she didn’t post anymore.

  • Mora@pawb.social
    4·
    2 months ago

    Think Invidious for porn.

    So, are user accounts planned? That would be a great feature, especially if favoriting a video would automatically cache/download the video on the server.

    • Desiring Machine@beehaw.orgOP
      6·
      1 month ago

      Next added features (in near future) will be:

      • advanced search with pagination and filters
      • support for other 4-5 platforms

      But yeah, a mechanism to save/bookmark favourite videos would definitely be cool and can be easily implemented!

  • jarfil@beehaw.org
    4·
    1 month ago

    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.

    • Desiring Machine@beehaw.orgOP
      2·
      1 month 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…

    • Lemongrab@lemmy.one
      2·
      1 month 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.

  • Desiring Machine@beehaw.orgOP
    2·
    1 month ago

    Hey there!

    Version 0.4.0 adds support for PornHub (experimental), YouPorn and RedTube.

    More features and platforms on the way!

    • Desiring Machine@beehaw.orgOP
      1·
      1 month ago

      It’s a design choice to make site look less aggressive whenever you open it… On mobile version there is a switch to toggle opacity. Maybe I can add that also on desktop version.

      • ViciousTurducken@lemmy.one
        2·
        1 month ago

        I would appreciate it! Having all thumbnails visible at once is what every video platform defaults to. Youtube, Pornhub, etc. I don’t want to have to hover every single thumbnail just to see if I’m interested in the video.