Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government

Re:Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns s... by jbluepolarbear on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:12PM (#28211479)

Google hangouts is garbage. I have never had a hangout call that didn’t freeze or have someone dropout. The audio on hangouts is beyond bad and makes people sound completely different than they do in person. The video quality is always grainy on my fiber connection. Zoom doesn’t have these problems for me.

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Re:Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns s... by remus on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @02:36PM (#28213272)

I find it interesting that people have such different experiences with the same tool. I tend to have 2 or 3 hangouts meetings a day and I can't remember the last time there was an issue.

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Re:Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns s... by vosper on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @02:51PM (#28213431)

Likewise - we switched from Gotomeeting to Google Meet (which is the same as hangouts, right?) mostly because the experience for staff in Latin America was so much better.

That said, Gotomeeting is the worst of the bunch. They haven't added a useful feature in years, the CPU usage is terrible, their parasitic launcher is very difficult to get rid of, ugh... I'm surprised they're still around.

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Re:Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns s... by jbluepolarbear on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @02:58PM (#28213514)

How are you okay with the audio compression? It makes everyone sound flat, monotone. It’s hard to tell who’s who if people have their cameras off.

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Re:Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns s... by el-salvador on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @01:09PM (#28212239)

Same issue here. If the link is too slow screen shares become grainy and text is hard to read.

While Zoom usually only slows the frame rate, but not the resolution.

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