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Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

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1597 points seapunk | 4 comments | 27 Mar 20 14:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.621s | source
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gnusty_gnurc ◴[27 Mar 20 14:52 UTC] No.22703264[source]▶
I’ve found Jitsi to be more than adequate with no need to download an app onto my computer. Just share the link with my friends!
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1. JumpCrisscross ◴[27 Mar 20 18:42 UTC] No.22705550[source]▶
> I’ve found Jitsi to be more than adequate

Just looked it up. Seems to be Chrome only. As a Safari and Firefox user, that ends my decision-making tree with two clicks.

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2. bennofs ◴[27 Mar 20 18:50 UTC] No.22705624[source]▶
They are working on it: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758. Unfortunately, I think WebRTC support is still not 100% uniform across browsers (there seem to be a range of browser-specific behaviour and bugs), making it hard to easily support all browsers. And Chrome appears to be the browser which implements new WebRTC features the fastest, so I can understand Jitsi Meet focusing their efforts on that platform.

You don't need chrome though, chromium should be enough.

3. teekert ◴[27 Mar 20 19:06 UTC] No.22705805[source]▶
On Linux it (obviously) also works on chromium, perhaps it also works on the new Edge? FF would be nice though.
4. phyzome ◴[28 Mar 20 00:05 UTC] No.22708008[source]▶
Worked on Firefox on Linux for me.