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You have a competitor, Zoom. They have an in-browser version. Can they use this API for troubleshooting performance issues? No? The European regulators might be interested in that.

Perhaps this is one reason why Meet performs well in the browser and Zoom doesn't, meaning Zoom users use the native app if they want reasonable performance (particularly with many people in the meeting).

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Apparently, this system statistics API is generally available to extension developers. The underlying issue is that they bundle a hidden "Hangouts Service Extension" with Chrome. Zoom, Teams, etc. would have access to this API through a Chrome extension, although they wouldn't have the advantage of having that extension pre-installed.

Mind you, Zoom does everything in their power to steer users away from their web client and toward their ~~malware~~ desktop client, so I don't think they're too upset about the status quo.

Are there any sources that the zoom desktop client is malware?

https://infosecwriteups.com/zoom-zero-day-4-million-webcams-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20387298

This is a link to a five year old issue, when Zoom was a much smaller operation and their quality was far worse than it is now. They implemented a convenience feature in an incredibly stupid and insure way, in 2019.

Do you have any evidence that the current Zoom client is "malware"?

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