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Amusingly, with Hangouts down, Skype video chats have become unusable. Time to move to Jitsi[1]? [1] https://jitsi.org/ https://jitsi.org/
by casca 13y ago
Amusingly, with Hangouts down, Skype video chats have become unusable. Time to move to Jitsi[1]?
[1] https://jitsi.org/ https://jitsi.org/
- rkuykendall-com 13y agoThe nice thing about WebRTC is that video chat services have exploded. I've been using https://appear.in/ https://appear.in/ lately. It couldn't be simpler to start group video chats.
- User8712 13y agoHow do these typically compare to Skype or Hangouts in terms of video and sound quality?
- rkuykendall-com 13y agoFrom a subjective standpoint: perfectly. From a technical standpoint: I believe Hangouts is moving to WebRTC soon as well.
- User8712 13y agoWhat about from a security standpoint? How safe are these web applications, and how confident can I be they're not logging audio or video from my calls? I'm not talking about government intelligence security, I'm talking about not appearing in my pajamas on the pirate bay.
- tracker1 13y agoIf both parties can get a raw socket in, then it's peer to peer... otherwise it's via proxy.
- somesay 13y agoI would say, you always have to trust the service provider. While you can manually verify a direct end-to-end connection etc., web apps could always easily change, without user notice. Well, but that's also true for any proprietary app that isn't open source and code-reviewed. It could be a browser feature in the future to sandbox those webcam data so that it's only transfered to a specific opponent. That has some problems to solve and is just a raw thought.
- sdfjkl 13y agoHigh time, if you value privacy (use ZRTP). Or open standards.
- chillingeffect 13y agofor those like me :) to whom it's not obvious: how come? Skype is from Microsoft and Hangouts is from Google, right?! Thank you for your patience in the face of my utterly stunning cluelessness.