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it is impossible to get a Google Account without giving your phone number I just now tried the Google account creation process on an unactivated mobile device, and entering a phone number can be skipped. Entering a birthdate was mandatory.
Try it on Tor, a VPN, or some other IP that doesn’t drop your physical location.
No end-to-end encryption plus forced Google Mail registration preventing anonymity. Yawn, Google. Yaaawn!
Does this give better sound quality? Because the sound quality on meet (Or is it Hangouts?) has been abysmal for the last few years. I also have no idea what meet actually even is these days. Is it just a rebranded hangouts or did they add something and merge Hangouts in?
Still a bug that should be fixed though.
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Try it on Tor, a VPN, or some other IP that doesn’t drop your physical location.
I once attempted to create a Google account from a university (which has their own ASN), and Google still asked for a phone number.
Google still asked for a phone number
Google asks me a dozen times a day to enable Location Services. Yeah, right.
> We do not allow anonymous users (i.e., without a Google Account) to join meetings created by individual accounts. If there is no guest accounts this will not be intresting for many.
While requiring a Google account to host a meeting makes some sense, requiring an account to join a meeting will simply mean too much friction and users will use another platform.
The equation is simple. Users use the first platform they can find where both sound and video works for every person they want to talk to. "Jim can't get into the call" soon leads to someone piping up "shall we try zoom instead?".
It's easy to see how this happened too - all Google engineers have Google accounts (for their work), so when testing this out, never encountered the issue.
I predict they'll change their stance in a few months when they see zoom still crushing them in user numbers, but by then it'll be too late - people will remember meet as that app which is "finicky to get to connect because everyone has to remember their password"
I left Google and the Meet team a while ago. Would have been great to experience this 30x growth though! Being oncall these days would have been interesting. I have used Meet a lot both personally and professionally this spring and I think it's great. Been waiting for this announcement!
I'm a loyal user of hangouts.
Does this give better sound quality? Because the sound quality on meet (Or is it Hangouts?) has been abysmal for the last few years. I also have no idea what meet actually even is these days. Is it just a rebranded hangouts or did they add something and merge Hangouts in?
I've used it and never noticed bad call quality and it performed pretty much very similar to Zoom. Not needing an installed app is a huge bonus.
You have to click to download the app, then cancel the download, and the link to join via browser appears.
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I've used it and never noticed bad call quality and it performed pretty much very similar to Zoom. Not needing an installed app is a huge bonus.
Zoom doesn't require an app, they just hide the link to use the web version pretty well. You have to click to download the app, then cancel the download, and the link to join via browser appears.
Significantly worse experience.