Over the last week or so there has suddenly been a huge take-up, and therefore focus on, Zoom.
Their previous behaviour is dire - including sneaking a web server into their Mac client to get around asking for permission, sending analytics to Faceboot, as well as claiming to have end-to-end encryption which they don't.
However, the current focus has caused them to address their issues, including changing their privacy policy. Their previous one basically said very little but did say that it collected unspecified data on us and passed it on to unspecified third parties - although they did not "sell" that data.
To be honest, I think they're now pretty much in line with FB / twitter / Insta / Google. I.e. I don't trust any of them, but we have little choice but to use them. All re can do is be sensible about it and apply the usual level of paranoia.
In answer to the OP, I have only ever used the App on my C7 system so have no ideal what it's like in Firefox / Chrome.
On Monday 06 April 2020 15:38:55 Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>
> On 4/6/20 9:33 AM, mark wrote:
> > On 2020-04-06 03:57, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote:
> >> If you have any choice in the matter I would suggest a read of
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications#Criticism
> >> before using or installing Zoom.
> >>
> > I can argue against zoom, and have, but organizations I belong to or
> > join, like this past weekend's sf con, Heliosphere, are using it. I have
> > a choice of using it, or not attending.
> >
> > Thererore, no choice.
> >
>
> One of my friends sysadmins uses for garbage tasks like web browsing
> separate account. I learned a lot from him.
>
> Valeri
>
> >
> > mark
> >
> >> On 06/04/2020 00:01, Barry Brimer wrote:
> >>> According to
> >>> https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/214629443-Zoom-web-client#h_2da60ac7-455e-466f-85d1-974aa68f0703
> >>> you would be able to join without an extension with sound in chrome
> >>> but not in firefox.
> >>>
> >>> On April 5, 2020 10:34:36 PM UTC, mark <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> Hi, folks,
> >>>>
> >>>> After I did a complete reinstall of current 7, with KDE instead of
> >>>> minimal, I'm mostly ok... except for Zoom. Has anyone gotten sound
> >>>> working with firefox? I get video, but it keeps claiming that my
> >>>> browser
> >>>> (the default firefox) can't access the system sound.
> >>>>
> >>>> Given that even as I type this, I'm streaming WUMB through its
> >>>> player.... I have noScript, but I enabled everything (except
> >>>> google-analytics), and no joy. I'd *really* rather use my browser than
> >>>> trust their app....
> >>>>
> >>>> mark
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