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Re: Not Using Zoom

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good luck to all those that have been trying to convince people to get off Zoom at $WORK (it's not that simple...). This should add some fuel to the fire.

We use it at work (20k plus employees) since before the pandemic and it has been awesome.

From the context I'm not entirely sure what "it"is. Zoom? Jitsi? Something else...

Re: Not Using Zoom

#82

I understand that people are (rightfully) upset by these terms. This is the first post I've seen saying they're rejecting Zoom calls, but I've seen plenty of comments on HN over the last few days on this topic saying roughly the same. My question is: what are you doing for work where you can just decline any invitation that comes from a specific service? That's not realistic at all for most people. Is there a solutio…

a conference call

Re: Not Using Zoom

#83

I came directly to the comments to recommend Jitsi instead. Glad the author made the same early in the article.

Jitsi's free SaaS is a great resource to have available but it's not really viable for many many (most?) use-cases. Apart from general stability issues (which is in fairness are always improving) the biggest blocker is the "Video turned off to save bandwidth" message that you will inevitably receive on any call with more than 2 members. This doesn't seem in my experience to just be something that occurs occasionally due to load - it's very consistent. Nor is there any option to override it (e.g. a call with 5 participants where 4 have turned off video will still experience this on the 5th participant - video can't be re-enabled once you see this).

If this were a limitation of a free plan, with a paid option offering higher bandwidth, that would be cool, but the only paid options they offer are app integrations starting at $100/mo for 300 users.

Re: Not Using Zoom

#84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it's reasonable that a SaaS should be able to train their AI on anything that is uploaded (if you're paying for the service). In fact, I don't think it's reasonable that they should even have access to view what you're uploading and sharing in private meetings. If neither of those were true, then they wouldn't have to worry about IP infringement.

Zoom End-to-End encryption should theoretically not allow Zoom to see any of the content no?

I'll go out on a limb and propose that end-to-end encryption and many-to-many real-time multimedia communication are two things that aren't often combined in a single product.

Re: Not Using Zoom

#85

I understand that people are (rightfully) upset by these terms. This is the first post I've seen saying they're rejecting Zoom calls, but I've seen plenty of comments on HN over the last few days on this topic saying roughly the same. My question is: what are you doing for work where you can just decline any invitation that comes from a specific service? That's not realistic at all for most people. Is there a solutio…

As always, I'd take what people are saying with a grain of salt. It might not be work related calls they're declining either.

Re: Not Using Zoom

#86

Hi there, I'm the COO of Zoom. We currently do not use audio, video or chat content to train AI models and we would not do so without customer consent. Please see our blog https://blog.zoom.us/zooms-term-service-ai/

> We do not use audio, video or chat content to train AI models

Could you please tell us what you do use? Uploaded files? Screenshots from screen sharing?

Re: Not Using Zoom

#87
post #5

> Be indemnified by me if it turns out someone else owns the IP or has their rights infringed Does this mean Zoom expects their users to take on the legal burden if someone on a call uses a copyrighted image on a PowerPoint slide?

Why on earth would Zoom be responsible for the legal burden if one of their millions of users uses a copyrighted image?

Re: Not Using Zoom

#88

My problem as a coach is, everything else is bad. Google Meet video quality feels like the 90s, they optimize for traffic costs. MS Teams is not easily usable from a meeting URL, but quality is higher than Google Meet. Other offers are often unreliable or low quality. When working with a trainer for my language/pronunciation I also found out that many solutions have abysmal sound quality, Zoom is best by far.

Yep - we've tried most (and have teams and meet FREE). Jitsi - core functionality issues with video quality tied to network setups perhaps make it a no go. If you work with a lot of folks for short bits of time everyone knows how to get on and work a zoom call. Teams has weird permissions issues, consumer vs business teams, and is forced on so many people that they auto close it (reminds me a bit of the IE pushiness…

> Google Meet started auto-adding links to meetings

You can disable that default company wide and force people to manually add it if desired.

Re: Not Using Zoom

#89

I understand that people are (rightfully) upset by these terms. This is the first post I've seen saying they're rejecting Zoom calls, but I've seen plenty of comments on HN over the last few days on this topic saying roughly the same. My question is: what are you doing for work where you can just decline any invitation that comes from a specific service? That's not realistic at all for most people. Is there a solutio…

If this gets big, most companies won't like the idea of their internal company calls being used to train AI, and they will switch off ASAP.

Re: Not Using Zoom

#90

The indemnification for IP is a standard term that exists in all SaaS terms. What it's saying is "if you upload copyrighted/infringing material to our service and someone sues us because of it, you have to pay our legal costs since we had nothing to do with it". This is a pretty reasonable thing, you're the one who uploaded the material, you're responsible for it, especially since zoom isn't checking/filtering what y…

It is entirely NOT reasonable to listen in on people's phone calls.
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