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Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act by Wowfunhappy on Friday March 27, 2020 @03:48PM (#22706160)
> Having to download a program is also really crappy IMO. Plenty of other video chat applications work in my browser.

You know, even two hours ago I'd have agreed with you, but my thinking is evolving.

It's pretty clear from responses in this thread that there is a quality difference between Zoom and Hangouts/Slack/Teams/etc, at least under certain circumstances. In addition, anecdotal reports are that if you do insist on joining Zoom via a web browser (even though their user flow really pushes you not to), Zoom's quality goes down a lot.

So perhaps the reason Zoom is superior is because of its native app. Whereas Slack and Teams's apps are just Electron clients that use WebRTC, Zoom is doing something truly custom. It seems to be paying dividends.

Not everything has to run in a web browser.

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Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act by curlypaul924 on Monday March 30, 2020 @07:55AM (#22727248)
> Not everything has to run in a web browser.

Very true, and not everything should run in a web browser.

But if something is going to run outside the browser, I would like some explanation of why.

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