Google bans Zoom from employees' computers

Re:Google bans Zoom from employees' computers by com2kid on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @05:33PM (#22817413)

WebEx on MacOS will, if left open and idle, randomly tell my headset that a phone call is starting, then it will disconnect it shortly after. Sometimes it disconnects two calls in a row (my headset announces when a call ends).

And every so often by virtue of being open in the background, WebEx manages to somehow crash my BT headphones.

Other than that, no real complaints.

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Re:Google bans Zoom from employees' computers by fencepost on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @06:13PM (#22817772)

Go into the Preferences, Video Systems (last item), uncheck "Automatically discover nearby devices"

The default behavior of Webex is to grab the microphone and keep it always-open looking for audio signals from Webex-compatible hardware.

I found this because I was bothered that even though I wasn't on a call Windows was telling me that Webex was actively using the Microphone, so I dug in. IIRC the post that guided me to this, on Apple devices with their earbuds it apparently also significantly degrades the sound due to some codec issue (or did in the past).

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Re:Google bans Zoom from employees' computers by fphhotchips on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @05:48PM (#22817560)

Yeah, Webex's background app has a weird habit of holding onto the microphone on Windows also. Why do they even need a background app? I have a calendar already. Just be a client when I need you.

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