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Comment by vxNsr | Hacker News Reader

This is a PR piece. People do hate zoom, this is zoom trying to rehabilitate their image through their security partner.

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People hate zoom? Like "Teams is so much better" or "online meeting are bad"?

For me it one of the more enjoyable online meeting options and it leaves Teams, Skype, webex and what have you, far behind.

Like "Zoom is an unethical company".

See: Privacy concerns, lying about encryption, connections to china, bad security.

That might be “people on HN hate zoom”.

Fair point.

Possibly "people on HN hate zoom, and then use it anyways because it's forced."

Or how about people on HN are educated about zoom and therefore hate it.

That doesn't make them wrong though

It doesn't, but it's worth noting that the general populace doesn't feel that way.

Because they don't realize how bad Zoom's bad acts could be for them. People didn't feel that cigarettes were bad for them. People don't feel like McDonald's is bad for them.

I work for a large MSP, one of our partners announced recently that effective basically immediately they are no longer supporting any zoom integrations due to the China connection.

a lot of college students do not worry about this

Its possible to hate zoom without liking one of the alternatives. I know a lot of people hate zoom because they associate it without meeting burning due to this year and security issues.

Never used Teams. Skype, which I last used years ago, was certainly better as far as downloadable chat clients go. Google Meet runs circles around Zoom, and I don't have to install anything.

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