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Zoom forces me to install the client, I give up

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When using a link like https://zoom.us/wc/join/123?wpk=blah I need to solve 2 captchas, every time: pick name and solve captcha, accept terms, click on the link again cuz zoom asks for password even though it is in the link, pick name and solve captcha -> then I join. solve captcha = click on the Buster button, but still (also that fails sometimes)

Some features are only available in the client, why? (You can see all profile pics in the client for example.)

And other stuff I can't prove (like we think the client has less lags).

I swear they just want that I install their fricking client, and I give up. Frick you Zoom, I give up, you may leave the browser sandbox and do what you want...

(No my employer won't stop using Zoom... we tried)

Maybe you are just not the target audience, or you're in a geographic location that is flagged, or you're browsing in incognito mode?

For the target audience, it happens: Dropbox became useless to me when the client stopped syncing because they dropped support for encrypted Linux filesystems.

Box doesn't have a Linux client.

This makes them exactly the same as the storage services they set to replace fifteen years ago from my perspective.

you can go into account settings and enable web-based video

EDIT: you can downvote me all you want but this is a fact, I have just tested it again myself.

VMs are something everyone should have installed already exactly for these kind off reasons.

you can also try windows sandbox on windows: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...

True, but I won't spin up a VM to answer a call... Also, I think the zoom client is just in Electron, so there's no reason it shouldn't just work in my browser!

It is actually written in Qt

Use Jitsi meeting.jit.si

OP mentioned:

> (No my employer won't stop using Zoom... we tried)

I don't think that's going to work.

Thing is, it’s still pretty good...so

Except when they leak your data to Facebook, or tell you your video's encrypted...

edit: Or open up RCE

Link: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2020/06/vuln-spotlight-zo...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23445325

use it on your smartphone

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