Zoom

“their products are usually worse than their competitors (e.g. GMeet vs Zoom)”

“no 3rd party story for FaceTime, Zoom, Google... was a real problem for most folks”

“the giant arrow annotation Zoom has makes it worth any amount of money compared to the competition”

“I prefer Zoom for that because I can hide most of the UI (and the other people) to focus on the teacher and their shared screen”

“I recently found out that several researchers, departments... buy a personal subscription for zoom”

“I just hit "join meeting" on a tablet in the meeting room and it'll join the meeting and pretty much just work.”

“The web client definitely lacks features, but I fail to see how this is a client feature?”

“Zoom isn't an accessibility app in the first place, and all capabilities it needs should be opt-in.”

“even if you don't click paste, zoom is actively listening to clipboard events and consuming pastes”

“After the COVID era bullshit of Zoom installing a utility that gives root access to anything, I've never installed it.”

“my last attempt at an ai-enabled zoom session was so wrong it got almost every identifying thing about me wrong”

“Worked for me - I was able to join the test meeting from Firefox 152”

“Zoom itself works absolutely fine, it's just the ipad app you get on vision pro.”

“I often review the transcriptions that zoom produces out of curiosity, and this happens constantly.”

“they have a product that is by far the most enjoyable to use in that space”

“my browser would open the right Google Meet or Zoom and come to the front.”

“Zoom misled users by claiming “end-to-end, 256-bit encryption” when it actually provided a lower level of security”

“I have weekly Zoom meetings and never had do to the "can you hear me" thing”

“I think there's some value in having the app installed for the extra validation.”

“Imagine, all those (lower) governments holding crisis meetings and sending the video and audio to China.”

“kudos to whoever decided Zoom clients with shoddy connections should buffer then race back to realtime”

“It works fine (tested on Arch), but at the very least you should run that kind of malware as a separate user”

“Google Meet and Zoom screen sharing has always worked well in Wayland”

“You think Apple is letting Google, Slack, and Zoom use their internal company data for training?”

“I gave up on the native Zoom client on Linux right away, it was completely broken.”

“I just had some issues getting my video to work properly across all of Teams and Zoom”

“when you screen share from discord or zoom or Google meets there's now a pop-up”

“They wouldn't do it "intentionally". It would be an mistake "accidentally" made by a Developer or AI, that under the right conditions allows Zoom employees, etc arbitrary file reads on the host”

“They have been caught lying-- not corporate speaking, not fudging a bit, outright lying-- on multiple occasions”

“every once in a while, someone will ask me to screenshare on a shared monitor, then i will have to explain i cannot , because i am on zoom browser.”

“cheap, easy to set up (for free!), and that mostly “just worked””

“Meanwhile Zoom, Teams, Webex, and others allow you to join any call without a mic or camera.”

“looking at your Zoom, which I uninstalled and use the web version, which is super hard to find now”

“I do love that zoom feature that shows the avatars of who’s joined already”

“apps, even proprietary ones like Zoom, tend to handle switching scale factors completely seamlessly”

“Even heavy applications like LibreOffice and Zoom are snappy.”

“Zoom will never lock up letting you join a meeting because someone decided you need to reauthenticate Teams regularly.”

“work as well or better than Teams for it's primary purpose: video calls”

“Live captioning and transcription in Teams/Zoom is really useful when you you miss something and need to go back.”

“the attention Zoom gave to UX just wasn't matched by any other precursor”