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If you refuse to install the desktop client, and just take calls in the browser, then you can close the tab when the meeting ends.

• nextos 5y ago
  Yeah, few people seem to know you can join any Zoom call using your browser (WebRTC). I refuse to install their spyware.
  • glitchc 5y ago
    Zoom offers multiple tools to enforce permissions on attendance: - Passwords - Meeting host approves anyone joining
    • saghm 5y ago
      I think you're misunderstanding what GP is saying. They're not saying you can join arbitrary meetings that you aren't invited to; they're saying that if you're invited to a meeting, you can join through the browser instead of using the desktop app.
      • glitchc 5y ago
        Whoops, completely misunderstood the response!
  • cycomanic 5y ago
    That said their browser implementation is even worse than the app. I mean I can't even change to a gallery view when using the browser. I'm really amazed how zoom became the quasi default for meeting software. While I'm not a big fan of teams, it works much better for this use case. Jitsi had some issues with firefox and safari at the beginning, which I think caused many people to dismiss it.
• soldeace 5y ago
  Which is not always feasible. Some companies enforce a no-WebRTC policy, so that installing the app winds up being the only possible solution.
  • rectang 5y ago
    Certainly true, but amusing. Presumably the primary rationale for a no-WebRTC policy is to avoid WebRTC leaks? In which case installing Zoom is a case of preferring "the devil you know over the devil you don't know".
    • gruez 5y ago
      > Presumably the primary rationale for a no-WebRTC policy is to avoid WebRTC leaks? I doubt corporate IT departments even care about "WebRTC leaks" (ie. your LAN IP getting leaked). Knowing that your computer is at 192.168.1.123 doesn't help attackers much. What's far more likely is that their networks only allow TCP connections, because that's all their firewalls/middleboxes/proxies support.
      • zzyzxd 5y ago
        > Knowing that your computer is at 192.168.1.123 doesn't help attackers much One can reconstruct your subnet scheme with a handful internal IP addresses, allowing them to locate potential targets faster once they get into your network, making attacks more efficient ("oh, so these guys have some vulnerable clients in this /16, it's probably dev, and I see there's another /24, which looks like prod").
    • dmurray 5y ago
      What's amusing about that? Preferring a whitelisted set of programs rather than allowing users to run code from any source is precisely how most security policies work.
      • rectang 5y ago
        Including Zoom in that whitelist is amusing because it has such a miserable reputation for security.