diff --git a/src/common/util/clientFetchers.ts b/src/common/util/clientFetchers.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ae75234a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/common/util/clientFetchers.ts
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+export const frontendSideFetch = fetch;
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/modules/aifn/react/react.ts b/src/modules/aifn/react/react.ts
index 6720d8137..b03664e58 100644
--- a/src/modules/aifn/react/react.ts
+++ b/src/modules/aifn/react/react.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ import { callApiSearchGoogle } from '~/modules/google/search.client';
 import { callBrowseFetchPage } from '~/modules/browse/browse.client';
 import { llmChatGenerateOrThrow, VChatMessageIn } from '~/modules/llms/llm.client';
 
+import { frontendSideFetch } from '~/common/util/clientFetchers';
+
 
 // prompt to implement the ReAct paradigm: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03629
 const reActPrompt = (enableBrowse: boolean): string =>
@@ -172,7 +174,7 @@ export class Agent {
 type ActionFunction = (input: string) => Promise<string>;
 
 async function wikipedia(q: string): Promise<string> {
-  const response = await fetch(
+  const response = await frontendSideFetch(
     `https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=${encodeURIComponent(q)}&format=json&origin=*`,
   );
   const data = await response.json();
diff --git a/src/modules/blocks/code/RenderCode.tsx b/src/modules/blocks/code/RenderCode.tsx
index 263db6342..820ad3837 100644
--- a/src/modules/blocks/code/RenderCode.tsx
+++ b/src/modules/blocks/code/RenderCode.tsx
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import SchemaIcon from '@mui/icons-material/Schema';
 import ShapeLineOutlinedIcon from '@mui/icons-material/ShapeLineOutlined';
 
 import { copyToClipboard } from '~/common/util/clipboardUtils';
+import { frontendSideFetch } from '~/common/util/clientFetchers';
 
 import type { CodeBlock } from '../blocks';
 import { ButtonCodePen, isCodePenSupported } from './ButtonCodePen';
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ async function fetchPlantUmlSvg(plantUmlCode: string): Promise<string | null> {
 
     // retrieve and manually adapt the SVG, to remove the background
     const encodedPlantUML: string = plantUmlEncode(plantUmlCode);
-    const response = await fetch(`https://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/svg/${encodedPlantUML}`);
+    const response = await frontendSideFetch(`https://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/svg/${encodedPlantUML}`);
     text = await response.text();
   } catch (e) {
     return null;
diff --git a/src/modules/elevenlabs/elevenlabs.client.ts b/src/modules/elevenlabs/elevenlabs.client.ts
index 250f4f6f9..2fb5e83a0 100644
--- a/src/modules/elevenlabs/elevenlabs.client.ts
+++ b/src/modules/elevenlabs/elevenlabs.client.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { backendCaps } from '~/modules/backend/state-backend';
 
 import { AudioLivePlayer } from '~/common/util/AudioLivePlayer';
 import { CapabilityElevenLabsSpeechSynthesis } from '~/common/components/useCapabilities';
+import { frontendSideFetch } from '~/common/util/clientFetchers';
 import { playSoundBuffer } from '~/common/util/audioUtils';
 import { useUIPreferencesStore } from '~/common/state/store-ui';
 
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ export async function speakText(text: string, voiceId?: string) {
   const nonEnglish = !(preferredLanguage?.toLowerCase()?.startsWith('en'));
 
   try {
-    const edgeResponse = await fetchApiElevenlabsSpeech(text, elevenLabsApiKey, voiceId || elevenLabsVoiceId, nonEnglish, false);
+    const edgeResponse = await frontendFetchAPIElevenLabsSpeech(text, elevenLabsApiKey, voiceId || elevenLabsVoiceId, nonEnglish, false);
     const audioBuffer = await edgeResponse.arrayBuffer();
     await playSoundBuffer(audioBuffer);
   } catch (error) {
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ export async function EXPERIMENTAL_speakTextStream(text: string, voiceId?: strin
   const nonEnglish = !(preferredLanguage?.toLowerCase()?.startsWith('en'));
 
   try {
-    const edgeResponse = await fetchApiElevenlabsSpeech(text, elevenLabsApiKey, voiceId || elevenLabsVoiceId, nonEnglish, true);
+    const edgeResponse = await frontendFetchAPIElevenLabsSpeech(text, elevenLabsApiKey, voiceId || elevenLabsVoiceId, nonEnglish, true);
 
     // if (!liveAudioPlayer)
     const liveAudioPlayer = new AudioLivePlayer();
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ export async function EXPERIMENTAL_speakTextStream(text: string, voiceId?: strin
 /**
  * Note: we have to use this client-side API instead of TRPC because of ArrayBuffers..
  */
-async function fetchApiElevenlabsSpeech(text: string, elevenLabsApiKey: string, elevenLabsVoiceId: string, nonEnglish: boolean, streaming: boolean): Promise<Response> {
+async function frontendFetchAPIElevenLabsSpeech(text: string, elevenLabsApiKey: string, elevenLabsVoiceId: string, nonEnglish: boolean, streaming: boolean): Promise<Response> {
   // NOTE: hardcoded 1000 as a failsafe, since the API will take very long and consume lots of credits for longer texts
   const speechInput: SpeechInputSchema = {
     elevenKey: elevenLabsApiKey,
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ async function fetchApiElevenlabsSpeech(text: string, elevenLabsApiKey: string,
     ...(streaming && { streaming: true, streamOptimization: 4 }),
   };
 
-  const response = await fetch('/api/elevenlabs/speech', {
+  const response = await frontendSideFetch('/api/elevenlabs/speech', {
     method: 'POST',
     headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
     body: JSON.stringify(speechInput),
diff --git a/src/modules/llms/vendors/unifiedStreamingClient.ts b/src/modules/llms/vendors/unifiedStreamingClient.ts
index 259bf8eb9..a245fde91 100644
--- a/src/modules/llms/vendors/unifiedStreamingClient.ts
+++ b/src/modules/llms/vendors/unifiedStreamingClient.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { apiAsync } from '~/common/util/trpc.client';
+import { frontendSideFetch } from '~/common/util/clientFetchers';
 
 import type { ChatStreamingFirstOutputPacketSchema, ChatStreamingInputSchema } from '../server/llm.server.streaming';
 import type { DLLMId } from '../store-llms';
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ export async function unifiedStreamingClient<TSourceSetup = unknown, TLLMOptions
   };
 
   // connect to the server-side streaming endpoint
-  const response = await fetch('/api/llms/stream', {
+  const response = await frontendSideFetch('/api/llms/stream', {
     method: 'POST',
     headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
     body: JSON.stringify(input),