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Personally, I do not think so. I did a test with myself and a coworker. I’m using macOS 10.12; he’s using 10.14. We both have up-to-date Zoom clients. In ou
by CaliforniaKarl 7y ago
Personally, I do not think so.
I did a test with myself and a coworker. I’m using macOS 10.12; he’s using 10.14. We both have up-to-date Zoom clients.
In our Zoom clients, we both already had the “Turn off my video when joining a meeting” box checked.
I set up a meeting, with participant video set to On, as the article describes. I took the new Meeting ID, launched Zoom, and joined my new meeting. I then sent my coworker the join URL using Slack.
My coworker clicked on the link, which opened the URL in Safari. Safari asked my coworker if he wanted to launch Zoom. My coworker confirmed that yes, he wanted to launch Zoom.
My coworker’s Zoom client did _not_ automatically start video. I never saw video come in from him.
- a-wu 7y ago> In our Zoom clients, we both already had the “Turn off my video when joining a meeting” box checked. I believe this is one of the mitigations, which is why it didn’t work.
- CaliforniaKarl 7y agoThat makes sense. But, I don’t remember ever turning on that checkbox.
- eeeeeeeeeeeee 7y agoThis is the issue. It’s on by default.
- CaliforniaKarl 7y agoI’m sorry, I am really confused. The box says “Turn off my video...”. So, I think having it on by default is a good thing.
- rrdharan 7y agoThe default is that the box is unchecked - i.e. the Zoom client will, by default, automatically turn on your camera when you join a meeting. You can opt out of that behavior by checking this box, but that behavior is the default.