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Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

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1597 points seapunk | 1 comments | 27 Mar 20 14:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Tokkemon ◴[27 Mar 20 14:46 UTC] No.22703216[source]▶
Is Zoom the best though? Google Hangouts seems to be just as good.
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thekyle ◴[27 Mar 20 14:52 UTC] No.22703267[source]▶
I tried Google Hangouts on Firefox on Linux but couldn't get it to work at all. It just errored out before starting the call.
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Wowfunhappy ◴[27 Mar 20 15:05 UTC] No.22703380[source]▶
I can’t say what happened there (Hangouts works fine for me in Firefox), but Zoom won’t let you use Firefox at all if you want audio.
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seanhunter ◴[27 Mar 20 15:14 UTC] No.22703476[source]▶
? I'm literally on a zoom conference in firefox with audio right now.
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1. Wowfunhappy ◴[27 Mar 20 15:26 UTC] No.22703628[source]▶
...huh. When I was trying it yesterday, it told me I couldn't use my computer's microphone "in this browser" and would have to either download the app or join by phone. It did let me use my webcam though, which seemed a bit bizarre.