Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act by hpcjoe on Friday March 27, 2020 @11:36AM (#22703751)

Having used zoom, teams, skype for business, webex, and many others ... zoom is the only one of these which just works. I'm on the con calls typically 5+ hours a day. Yes, it is soul crushing.

Teams sorta works, though it often messes up with devices. Headsets and speakers (I've got a Jabra speak 710). Often times it handles contention badly.

Skype ... yeah. The less said the better.

Webex. Must be marketing for Zoom and others, given how unreservedly horrible the UX is.

I've also used uberconference some years ago. Almost as good as zoom.

I am looking at containerized ways to run zoom to restrict its access to my system, but it is the best IMO, by far.

[edit] I should note that I've also used Viber a bit. Less now though. Mostly for calling home from overseas. Not great for conferencing though.

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Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act by basilgohar on Friday March 27, 2020 @01:02PM (#22704604)

Zoom also has a good Linux client. It's been the least frictive option amongst the well-known conferencing apps with clients for me.

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Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act by carlob on Friday March 27, 2020 @01:43PM (#22705001)

Good if you are not trying to do some weird stuff like, god forbid, fractional scaling on wayland.

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Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act by hpcjoe on Friday March 27, 2020 @01:57PM (#22705115)

I'd argue this is more of an issue with wayland than zoom. Wayland seems to break many things from what I've read.

I use linuxmint, so largely, I don't run into these issues.

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Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act by fiftyfifty on Friday March 27, 2020 @12:23PM (#22704235)

Teams is way better than Skype, provided everyone is on a computer.

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