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This was downvoted, why?
Maybe because of that stupid screaming warning banner on the website: WARNING: YOU MAY BE BEING SCAMMED! If you are on the phone with someone you DON'T know AND TRUST who has asked you to install RustDesk, do not install and hang up immediately. They are likely a scammer trying to steal your money or other private information.
Why do you call it stupid?
Reemo: https://reemo.io/ > You don't even need a code or install a client (you can use Chrome). Sometimes I use it for gaming, too.
Information Automatically Collected. ... Online activity data. Information about your use of and actions on the Service, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen and navigation paths between pages or screens. https://reemo.io/privacy-policy To me this seems horrifyingly invasive.
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/gfinee/pars...>
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Maybe because of that stupid screaming warning banner on the website: WARNING: YOU MAY BE BEING SCAMMED! If you are on the phone with someone you DON'T know AND TRUST who has asked you to install RustDesk, do not install and hang up immediately. They are likely a scammer trying to steal your money or other private information.
> Maybe because of that stupid screaming warning banner on the website Why do you call it stupid?
(I instinctively closed the website)
2] worst case it looks like they don’t have their shit together with scammers and need to shake the confidence of all users in the process
Not a fan of either.
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Maybe because of that stupid screaming warning banner on the website: WARNING: YOU MAY BE BEING SCAMMED! If you are on the phone with someone you DON'T know AND TRUST who has asked you to install RustDesk, do not install and hang up immediately. They are likely a scammer trying to steal your money or other private information.
That's a pretty good warning, though! People use remote access software like TeamViewer to scam people out of money constantly, there's entire offices where people go to work just to scam people out of their money using this software. It's such a huge problem that it really does warrant all of this attention.
It seems to be such a huge problem only for this particular service, then?
TeamViewer has always been evil, due to their persistent-install-by-default policy, not to mention them clinging to 4-digits PINs for years after that ceased to be viable, and refusing to respond to security concerns with anything approaching transparency. I used to be a paid customer for many years, but had to abandon ship due to ever-increasing costs (yeah for mandatory viewer upgrades!) related to MSP features that I never asked for and were complicating even the most basic tasks.
Then, I turned to Splashtop, which was glorious for a while. Until they decided to assign me a "customer success representative" and wanted to do the same MSP upsell, even though I explicitly and repeatedly asked them to leave me alone.
Since then, I've mostly been using Windows QuickAssist, and it's OK: you still need to be on the phone with the party you support to guide them through various permission prompts, but that's probably unavoidable.
The list of failed products in this space is impressive, by the way! Anyone remember Fog Creek Copilot? Weird, because "I'll pay you $99.95 on an annual basis to do 2-3 remote sessions every month" sounds like it should be lucrative...
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Maybe because of that stupid screaming warning banner on the website: WARNING: YOU MAY BE BEING SCAMMED! If you are on the phone with someone you DON'T know AND TRUST who has asked you to install RustDesk, do not install and hang up immediately. They are likely a scammer trying to steal your money or other private information.
That kind of warning exists because a lot of people are being scammed. Warning people not to let strangers have access to their PC seems like the right thing to do.
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That's a pretty good warning, though! People use remote access software like TeamViewer to scam people out of money constantly, there's entire offices where people go to work just to scam people out of their money using this software. It's such a huge problem that it really does warrant all of this attention.
> It's such a huge problem that it really does warrant all of this attention. It seems to be such a huge problem only for this particular service, then?
For Windows 10 and Windows 11, there is already a built-in app called Quick Assist. It's a bit bare-bones compared to Team Viewer but it's free and it works out of the box. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_Assist https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p7bp5vnwkx5?hl=en-US&gl=U...
Try NoMachine. IME, performance is pretty sub-par, but if it's a once in a while thing you probably don't care that much. It's also got a "clean" and "modern" UI that would look right at home on a toddler's toy.
It's essentially the very same service visually, but it's semi-FLOSS, multi-platform and self-hosting it with enough bandwidth offer very nice performances.