Maybe it's obvious but how does this break GDPR?
You shouldn't set a cookie without expiry date especially after user opt-out.
This particular example isn't really a big issue. But, perhaps you wouldn't read it if the title was too accurate.
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#172I love how when you go to enter a Zoom meeting, they bury the no-install, run-in-browser link in small type in a footer. And then, if you manage to see the link and use the browser, they withhold "Gallery View", forcing you to deal with the extremely annoying "Active Speaker View".
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#173Why people still uses zoom? Something like Google Meet or Microsoft Teams are better.
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#174I really don't like how Zoom forces the download of an executable, how doesn't this trip the antimalware? What a bad practice.
It's annoying when you don't have the client and you want to jump into a meeting. or you don't want to install client for different reasons.
They obviously focus on pushing their client because they can offer more features and better user experience. It's easier to sell their product to you. Otherwise most web clients are limited in features which means it's harder to compete for them.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
> WebRTC doesn’t incur data costs on the servers since the data is peer-to-peer There are probably some operators that do pure p2p, but vast majority use some kind of bridge past certain number of users (& TURN might also be used for p2p). Usually this is to limit the amount of bandwidth participant needs. Another alternatives are https://meet.jit.si & https://8x8.vc/ . I cannot remember what was the current limit of…
8x8 has intrigued me, but I'm a bit confused as to what happened. Did 8x8 buy the Jitsi brand from Atlassian? And what's the benefit of 8x8 vs Jitsi pure? I might be a customer if 8x8 is a compelling alternative to Zoom without some of the downsides of Jitsi (generally less reliable).
Disclaimer: I work at 8x8 (not specifically on meetings, but related)
8x8 offers more than just meetings.
You can see the feature list here: https://www.8x8.com/products/video-conferencing
Yes we bought Jitsi from Atlassian.
The Jitsi based meetings are integrated into our complete UC offering (yet we still deliver stand-alone meeting clients for customers who might want only meetings).
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#176*doesn't
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
It caught me off guard too. The company is UK-based so it's probably a British colloquialism.
As far as I can find online, it's american street language; I only know it from US shows and Eminem (and other rap) songs. Maybe here it's used to indicate that "zoom be stupid".
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
> they bury the no-install, run-in-browser link I wrote a browser extension that will transparently redirect all zoom links to user their web client: https://github.com/arkadiyt/zoom-redirector
I thought they removed the in-browser link? Does your extension still work?
The in-browser link is hidden till you click the button to launch the zoom client app. Then, the link appears.
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#179It's unfortunate that they bought and destroyed Keybase [1] in a bid to improve their security and even still there seems to be no improvement. Guess even the best folks can't make an impact if company culture prevents it. [1] https://github.com/keybase/client/graphs/commit-activity
Speaking of Keybase, I'm looking for an alternative to their encrypted Git repositories.
Any suggestions?
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
Browsers do generally have a limit on simultaneous outgoing connections per domain[1] - it could be related to that. (This is also why e.g. TFS breaks down when you open too many tabs). [1] https://docs.pushtechnology.com/cloud/latest/manual/html/des...
I doubt that has anything to do with it. Zoom almost certainly handles composing the image for gallery view server-side; you're not maintaining a separate connection for each participant.
Google Meet does send each video participants video stream seperately. You can tell this by disconnecting internet and then clicking a (now frozen) participant - they become fullscreen but low-res.
That means the client must have had that data locally rather than needing to wait for the server to send it.