Web peers are not publicly accessible: because we use the websocket transport, the protocol is different from classic BitTorrent tracker. When you are in a web browser, you send a signal containing your IP address to the tracker that will randomly choose other peers to forward the information to. See <x id="START_LINK" ctype="x-a" equiv-text="<a href="https://github.com/yciabaud/webtorrent/blob/beps/bep_webrtc.rst">"/>this document<x id="CLOSE_LINK" ctype="x-a" equiv-text="</a> "/> for more information
Allow <x id="START_TAG_STRONG" ctype="x-strong" equiv-text="<strong>"/>anonymous users<x id="CLOSE_TAG_STRONG" ctype="x-strong" equiv-text="</strong> "/> to look up remote videos/actors that may not be federated with your instance
You should only use moderated search indexes in production, or <x id="START_LINK" ctype="x-a" equiv-text="<a href="https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/search-index">"/>host your own<x id="CLOSE_LINK" ctype="x-a" equiv-text="</a>"/>.