What P2P does and does not protect

Privacy tools work best when you know their boundaries. Browser P2P is strong against third-party file warehousing; weaker against local compromise and network policy.

Protects: cloud copies of payloads

PrivateDrop is designed so file chunks move between peers, not into a Private Tools bucket.

Protects: vendor data breaches of file content

If we never store your payload, we cannot leak it from a file database we do not run.

Does not protect: malicious peers

If you send to the wrong person, encryption cannot undo the mistake.

Does not protect: compromised devices

Keyloggers, remote access trojans, or unlocked shared PCs bypass transport security.

Does not fully protect: network observers

ISPs or corporate firewalls may still see connection metadata or block UDP. Read corporate networks.

FAQ

Is P2P anonymous to my ISP?

They may see encrypted WebRTC flows between IP addresses.

Malware scanning?

No cloud AV step runs on your bytes in this model—that is a trade-off you choose.

Cloud sharing comparison

What cloud file sharing collects.