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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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maxk42 ◴[27 Mar 20 16:50 UTC] No.22704499[source]▶
I've been using Firefox on Fedora for both Zoom and Hangouts for at least two years. No problems.

Slack, on the other hand, can go to hell.

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1. Wowfunhappy ◴[27 Mar 20 18:33 UTC] No.22705465[source]▶
And just to make sure, you're certain you haven't installed Zoom's client?

I'm very confused now, because there have been multiple comments in this thread both confirming it doesn't work in Firefox, and confirming that it does.