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

Re:Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns s... by saiya-jin on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:51PM (#28212010)

Must be your specific webex/connection settings/version then, we have it in our massive banking corps (90k+employees worldwide) and none of the things you describe are an issue. We have adopted it some 7 years ago.

You don't need to run it in browser at all, there are desktop (and phone) clients for every major OS out there. This shows that you are really not familiar with it.

Now it is still a crappy system, but for different reasons than you describe. And other solutions have their own problems, as indicated by article and elsewhere.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns s... by hobofan on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:24PM (#28213792)

The 1000 slightly different versions of Webex that are all bundeled under the same brand are its biggest drawback.

My university uses it as well, and the normal latest version of Webex is on par with Zoom. However for some courses the lecutrers use e.g. Webex Training which is barely usable garbage (but is the only version that has built-in quiz features).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns s... by illiac786 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @03:18AM (#28218453)

My company uses webex since years and quizz is now built into the Webex Meetings app as they bought slido. I agree though that Webex Training, Webex Support, and some very old webex versions are just terrible.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns s... by iso1210 on Monday August 23, 2021 @02:29PM (#28280007)

> You don't need to run it in browser at all, there are desktop (and phone) clients for every major OS out there. This shows that you are really not familiar with it.

I don't care about anyone else's OS. I have desktop zoom, desktop slack, and desktop MS Teams, all work fine. Webex has web only (which means no whiteboard -- which I'm told from people who do have supported desktops -- mac users I think -- isn't good), no joining of private rooms, and the awful spyyware ability of remote people to turn on your microphone without your permission.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns s... by silurian on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:06PM (#28213602)

> there are desktop (and phone) clients for every major OS out there. This shows that you are really not familiar with

Now you sound as if you are not familiar with it. Looks like Webex added Linux(Deb & RHEL) on May 28, 2021. Before that, you had to use their legacy java applcation which also necessitated you to *manually* figure out, then hunt down & install the missing dependencies. And it was still shit.

[ Parent | on HN ]