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Brave Talk – Privacy-Preserving Video Conferencing

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Re: Brave Talk – Privacy-Preserving Video Conferencing

#4
To start a call, there is a requirement that you are

1) Using the Brave Browser

2) Have Brave Rewards (their crypto-and-ads service) turned on.

Not loving that.

Edit: the first one is fine (although a little strange that it is a requirement here but not for their other products, like Brave Search). I'm irked by the second one.

Re: Brave Talk – Privacy-Preserving Video Conferencing

#5
Nice that there are no time limits. Not great that passwords are only for Premium customers. But if you're just doing 1-on-1 calls it's pretty easy to notice if an uninvited guest has appeared.

Does this offer scheduling, or just initiating calls in real time?

Re: Brave Talk – Privacy-Preserving Video Conferencing

#6

To start a call, there is a requirement that you are 1) Using the Brave Browser 2) Have Brave Rewards (their crypto-and-ads service) turned on. Not loving that. Edit: the first one is fine (although a little strange that it is a requirement here but not for their other products, like Brave Search). I'm irked by the second one.

I bet you are loving that it's free though.

Re: Brave Talk – Privacy-Preserving Video Conferencing

#7

To start a call, there is a requirement that you are 1) Using the Brave Browser 2) Have Brave Rewards (their crypto-and-ads service) turned on. Not loving that. Edit: the first one is fine (although a little strange that it is a requirement here but not for their other products, like Brave Search). I'm irked by the second one.

Number 1 is to be expected. Number 2 came as a surprise. Doesn't appear to be mentioned anywhere in the launch announcement.

I assume someone could turn on Brave Rewards, start a call, and then turn it off later?

Re: Brave Talk – Privacy-Preserving Video Conferencing

#8

Nice that there are no time limits. Not great that passwords are only for Premium customers. But if you're just doing 1-on-1 calls it's pretty easy to notice if an uninvited guest has appeared. Does this offer scheduling, or just initiating calls in real time?

you can set a password in the security settings, also there's a feature called Lobby which allows to let users to join the call
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