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

Apr 9, 2020 Β· 9:58 AM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone @thommay @IsotomaDoug @mjg59
Chrome defaulting to 'log in to the browser when logging in to a website so we can slurp in all your data' a few releases ago ticked my creepiness sensor enough that I switched to Firefox forever. It actually works better IMO. (I know they changed that default on desktop now)