Same goes for Teams.
I just wish that the browser-based Teams video conference version would let me blur the video background. I don’t always have a nice, presentable space for these calls.
Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
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Re: Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
#12Re: Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
#13Title needs (2020)
Re: Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
#14Zoom does a pretty good job of hiding the link to join a meeting with your browser, only showing it (quickly) after you download their installer, and more often after a delay of several seconds. I poked around briefly and couldn’t find any hidden links that I could expose by a quick console script, though I haven’t looked through their client-side JavaScript yet. Anyone have any shortcuts or bookmarklets to make it e…
Re: Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
#15Zoom does a pretty good job of hiding the link to join a meeting with your browser, only showing it (quickly) after you download their installer, and more often after a delay of several seconds. I poked around briefly and couldn’t find any hidden links that I could expose by a quick console script, though I haven’t looked through their client-side JavaScript yet. Anyone have any shortcuts or bookmarklets to make it e…
Not sure if you can easily automate this, but changing user agent to ChromeOS based Chrime used to surface that link.
Re: Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
#16I normally prefer browser to app. Why would I want to install yet more junk software, which might be doing who-knows-what, if I can get the same result without adding extra weird, untrustworthy stuff to my systems? This applies to PCs and much more so to phones - on phones standard of "trusted" is rather lower, and increasing the number apps has real downsides (battery, performance, etc)
I just realized this has been mysterious to me forever. Why is software on phones so bad?
Touch screens were a mistake
Re: Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
#17I normally prefer browser to app. Why would I want to install yet more junk software, which might be doing who-knows-what, if I can get the same result without adding extra weird, untrustworthy stuff to my systems? This applies to PCs and much more so to phones - on phones standard of "trusted" is rather lower, and increasing the number apps has real downsides (battery, performance, etc)
> This applies to PCs and much more so to phones - on phones standard of "trusted" is rather lower, and increasing the number apps has real downsides (battery, performance, etc)
I'd argue this applies more to PCs and less to phones, since the security model for most desktop OSs gives all applications access to all user data, so you need to completely trust everything you install. On Android (and I believe ios) all applications are sandboxed. You can also prevent them from running in the background to limit impact on battery/performance.
Although I still agree that I still don't like installing junk on either, and phones still aren't completely immune.
Re: Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just realized this has been mysterious to me forever. Why is software on phones so bad?
Touch screens were a mistake
I'm not sure if it was the keyboard, or the OS, or both, but I found the software on my Palm Pre so much better for doing what I actually want, and in less time, instead of the mindless scrolling it feels like phones now are optimized for.
Re: Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
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1. Or use Session, the phone numberless fork of Signal
Re: Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
#20According to a random Forbes blogspam site from three years ago with no specific reason or sources cited..
How does this low effort drivel even get voted to the front page here?