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How do these typically compare to Skype or Hangouts in terms of video and sound quality?

• rkuykendall-com 13y ago
  From a subjective standpoint: perfectly. From a technical standpoint: I believe Hangouts is moving to WebRTC soon as well.
  • User8712 13y ago
    What 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 ago
      If both parties can get a raw socket in, then it's peer to peer... otherwise it's via proxy.
      • somesay 13y ago
        I 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.