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Meet requires a Google account to attend a video call while Zoom does not. So if your hosting a meeting with strangers, using Meet is not user friendly. At lea

Meet requires a Google account to attend a video call while Zoom does not. So if your hosting a meeting with strangers, using Meet is not user friendly. At least personally I refuse to make a Google account bc it requires giving Google my phone number... But I know that's a bit of technoludditism in the current zeitgeist

whstl 2y ago
Is this new? I have definitely joined Meets calls from my personal laptop and I don't have a personal Google account. This includes my last job interview, and, well, I got the job. Perhaps it's meeting specific, or organization specific?
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- contrarian1234 2y ago
  I read that if you have a business account then this limitation doesn't exist - but I've never had anyone send me a link that worked without a login
  - whstl 2y ago
    Ah, I can see how Google would do it like this.
loosescrews 2y ago
This is only true for meetings created with free gmail accounts. If use Google Workspace this limitation does not apply.
- behnamoh 2y ago
  That's a shady tactic right there.
  - jasonvorhe 2y ago
    What's so shady about that? It's not like they're advertising a feature to free Gmail users only to up sell them to workspace?
Guidii 2y ago
You can join a Google Meet meeting without a Google account if the meeting creator enables the “Anyone with the link can join” setting, or if they accept you when you click the link. https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9303069?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop#zippy=%2Cjoin-a-video-meeting-with-a-meeting-link-url%2Cjoin-a-video-meeting-without-a-google-account https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9303069?hl=en&co=GENI...
- contrarian1234 2y ago
  It's been over 6 months since I've looked into this, so it's possible my info is out of date - but the “Anyone with the link can join” setting is only available to people with a paid Google business account. Nobody in my department had anything like that

whstl 2y ago

Is this new? I have definitely joined Meets calls from my personal laptop and I don't have a personal Google account. This includes my last job interview, and, well, I got the job. Perhaps it's meeting specific, or organization specific?

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contrarian1234 2y ago
I read that if you have a business account then this limitation doesn't exist - but I've never had anyone send me a link that worked without a login
- whstl 2y ago
  Ah, I can see how Google would do it like this.

loosescrews 2y ago

This is only true for meetings created with free gmail accounts. If use Google Workspace this limitation does not apply.

behnamoh 2y ago
That's a shady tactic right there.
- jasonvorhe 2y ago
  What's so shady about that? It's not like they're advertising a feature to free Gmail users only to up sell them to workspace?

Guidii 2y ago

You can join a Google Meet meeting without a Google account if the meeting creator enables the “Anyone with the link can join” setting, or if they accept you when you click the link. https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9303069?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop#zippy=%2Cjoin-a-video-meeting-with-a-meeting-link-url%2Cjoin-a-video-meeting-without-a-google-account https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9303069?hl=en&co=GENI...

contrarian1234 2y ago
It's been over 6 months since I've looked into this, so it's possible my info is out of date - but the “Anyone with the link can join” setting is only available to people with a paid Google business account. Nobody in my department had anything like that