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"The Zoom app notifies Facebook when the user opens the app, details on the user's device.., [their] time zone and city, which phone carrier.., and a unique advertiser identifier.. which companies can use to target a user with advertisements", WTF 😭 vice.com/en_us/article/…
Anyone have recommendations for a Zoom alternative that's not made by Facebook or Google, or sends data to either, but works cross platform?
Seen recommendations for whereby too. whereby.com
"Our business model is to provide a paid service to users who need additional features on top of the FREE version, and does not rely on widespread collection of general user data", Whereby's privacy policy sings in tune. And they're Norwegian. Promising! whereby.com/information/to…
At this point, I take "not built in Silicon Valley" as a significant, positive signal in determining whether I might be interested in a piece of software.
So just gave @whereby a spin. It seems absolutely lovely! I particularly love that you don't need any client, it just works in Safari (and any other browser), and the leave button is INSTANT 😂. Pricing looks super good too. $60/month for the whole company. YEP!
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The best Zoom alternative is fewer virtual meetings and more considered, long-form write-ups. It won’t replace them all, but if your remote day is nothing but a long series of Zoom meetings with small breaks in between, you’re probably doing it wrong.
We wrote an extensive guide on how to do company communication. Video conferencing and chat serves a small, but important role. Long-form, considered writing serves a much larger, much more important one. basecamp.com/guides/how-we-…
And lest you think that written chat is where your focus should be instead, well, read this. basecamp.com/guides/group-c…
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Zoom has stopped the data leakage to Facebook. That’s good. But their privacy policy is still a complete trash fire that belittles privacy legislation, and grants themselves the right to do exactly what they were just caught doing. vice.com/en_us/article/…
What’s astounding about this privacy policy is just how transparent Zoom is about the nastiness of adtech. That data provided by Zoom to Google will be combined with other sources, and this stew of plundered data is then sold to the highest bidder for as targeting.
If you’re still using Zoom, you should really read Doc Searls excellent summary of the litany of privacy issues still present, as well as the detailed breakdown of their terrible privacy policy. blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/27…
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Meetings are toxic. Doesn't matter if your work day is being chopped up into work moments in the office or virtually. Thinking that working remotely = meeting remotely is a grave misconception. Remote work thrives on deep work, which requires long stretches of uninterrupted time.
We wrote about meetings being toxic in REWORK back in 2010. All this is true of virtual meetings as well. In fact, if anything, virtual meetings are even worse. Slightly lower fidelity, definitely less humanity. The biggest level-up you can do when going remote is fewer meetings.
To that same effect: Running an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda isn't the answer either. Group chat might feel like it's the more enlightened step over endless Zoom chats, but it's not. It's a stress factory. basecamp.com/guides/group-c…
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