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

Re:Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns s... by oritron on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:37PM (#28211825)

I found Webex to be quite a lot worse than Zoom in my limited experience. I attended a few IEEE presentations hosted on the platform. Audio didn't connect smoothly and needed a few restarts. The talk was constantly interrupted by a chiming noise whenever a person joined or left the meeting. I remember finding a configuration setting for this but the hosts didn't see my message (another bad feature), as this was a meeting-wide setting rather than a client one. Even if it were configurable per-user, that chime turned on is an unexpected and intrusive default setting.

Beyond that, I couldn't see the presented content in full-screen. There was a lot of junk in the form of perpetual UI elements for the "fullscreen mode".

These seemed like pretty fundamental misses for the platform to make.

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Re:Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns s... by echlebek on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @04:35PM (#28214543)

I attended a webex earlier this year and I found the experience was far better than Zoom. The audio and video quality was better, and also the presentation controls were much more sophisticated.

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Re:Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns s... by illiac786 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @03:34AM (#28218559)

this entry beep is a typical example of security vs. usability. The entry beep is meant for everyone to know if someone joined, even if they have joined using a phone only. It is also configurable. I think it was a huge mistake from cisco to make it a default though, the security benefit is too small. In the latest version is is now automatically disabled after 25 participants I believe, so they heard the feedback (took their time though).

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