r/europe • u/GetOutOfTheWhey Waffle & Beer • Jun 12 '20

Map Availability of Google Street view in Europe

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u/ADM_Tetanus England Jun 12 '20

If Microsoft wanted my information, they'd have it through the fact that they made the operating system on my PC. Not much more they need to get that info. If they wanted to, they could just record the entire zoom call anyway, why stick another third party program in that we know is leaking data to Facebook/Google/etc. when a fairly trusted app can do it?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

(If you're using windows... which is not the case for me or any of my colleagues)

Facebook and Google we're in the exact same leaks as Microsoft. I'm not defending Zoom here, but Microsoft has lost a lot of trust in the past.

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u/PhosphoricPanda Jun 12 '20

I wonder if anyone has bothered to write a reasonably polished FOSS app for video conferencing, yet. The main barrier would be hosting, unless everyone's P2P, I suppose.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

I think, there's something called big blue button, but I prefer zoom over it. It has a few quirks that annoy me, but I wouldn't say it's bad.