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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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blntechie ◴[27 Mar 20 16:28 UTC] No.22704275[source]▶
Zoom have had several controversies with its privacy now and still going strong . Great staying power like Facebook.

The product must be really good. I have never used them more than in couple occasions and found it like any other web conferencing tool in my opinion.

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alfalfasprout ◴[27 Mar 20 16:43 UTC] No.22704427[source]▶
Truth is, it has the best video quality I've seen out of any of the video conferencing tools out there by a mile. Only Facetime comes close and it's limited to apple hardware and has more limited screen collaboration tools.

As a result, they're going to have staying power.

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unlinked_dll ◴[27 Mar 20 18:01 UTC] No.22705156[source]▶
Maybe I'm biased but video quality doesn't really bother me nearly as much as audio quality, and Zoom kinda sucks there. Part of it is the codec, but their AEC is so godawful we have to force everyone on calls to use headphones.

Video quality is really only necessary when screen sharing, and zoom does OK there.

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codetrotter ◴[27 Mar 20 20:18 UTC] No.22706438[source]▶
> AEC

I haven't heard this abbreviation before but I assume it means Audio Echoing Cancellation.

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1. unlinked_dll ◴[27 Mar 20 20:29 UTC] No.22706556{3}[source]▶
Usually Acoustic Echo Cancellation but yes. When it's good you don't notice it (several commercial audio installation products do a great job at it) but when it's bad it's really bad. I'm not sure if Zoom even bothers.