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They recently changed their meet application for some reason. I use it without video, voice only; recently it has started trying to force me to use both - I have to refuse both, then once in the meet go and enable voice only. I loathe all things google but am forced to use meet for work.

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I doubt you actually work there given your last sentence, but have you tried proposing an alternative (along with some reasons why it would be better) the next time someone asks you to use it?

> I doubt you actually work there given your last sentence,

What is your logic? My company uses Meet and it's "mandated" in the sense that it is used for all company meetings. I'm in a position that I might get us to switch if I pushed it, but Teams and Zoom aren't much better. I assure you I work at my company.

I meant not working for Google.

I'm not sure about Teams, but Zoom lets you use a standard SIP client to join meetings.

Why do you think they claimed to work for Google? I didn't get that at all.

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