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Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

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1597 points seapunk | 3 comments | 27 Mar 20 14:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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GekkePrutser ◴[27 Mar 20 15:08 UTC] No.22703411[source]▶
Yeah I hate ZOOM sooo much.

First there was the issue with them turning on the camera by default. At least you could turn that off. Then there was the spyware they installed on every Mac without even asking for consent. And now this...

Since the spyware thing I refuse to install their crap on my machine, but one of our suppliers still uses it and the web client is very choppy.. But they'll just have to put up with it. I'm never installing it again.

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1. geoffeg ◴[27 Mar 20 15:30 UTC] No.22703673[source]▶
I also find their UI to be frustrating, especially the chat part of it. I have yet to find a way to make the chat more dense, every message seems to have an excess of white space. Also, at least with the company that I use it with, there's no obvious way to search message history.
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2. GekkePrutser ◴[27 Mar 20 16:29 UTC] No.22704288[source]▶
Yeah that's an issue with many 'modern' apps. MS Teams does the same :( I really preferred slack but now that MS throws Teams in for free we have to cope with that.
3. bchociej ◴[27 Mar 20 19:46 UTC] No.22706144[source]▶
Agreed. I find the whole experience to be horrible. Especially having to install some garbage executable rather than using my browser. It does nothing for me that Google Meet doesn't do better.