Re: buzzfeednews.com/article/pra… - I wasn't involved in this decision, but end users shouldn't feel scared about using Zoom just because Google blocked it. The things we have to care about are very different to the things most people have to care about.
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Most likely they’re blocking it because otherwise no one would willingly use hangouts :p
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Honestly Meet is pretty good?
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It works acceptably when talking to googlers and terribly otherwise
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We've found Meet to be surprisingly OK for our work meetings. Both small and full-company Friday talks. Really impressed with the auto-captioning too.
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Huh. I'm yet to be on a meet call in which one or more participants hasn't had to turn their video off, and the audio is *never* in sync
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Weird. I've never had that, and I don't know any internal experiments that would influence it.
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Yeah, it makes no sense - I can't imagine it would actually be the case that there would be any internal config to make it better.
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FWIW It works far better in chrome than anything else, in my experience.
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Replying to @IsotomaDoug @thommay @mjg59
So I hear. Sadly Chrome irritated me sufficiently that I switched back to Firefox. And now it continues to irritate me because my colleagues who try and copy/paste URLs for me end up without schemes because Chrome has decided noone needs the scheme when copying a URL. ARGH

Apr 9, 2020 Β· 9:46 AM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone @IsotomaDoug @mjg59
Yeah I keep chrome installed pretty much just for meet/hangouts
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I'd rather fail to have meetings, than have to use Chrome at this point :D
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