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Don’t Google and Microsoft answers both require accounts, and carry with them the expectation that everything you do on their platforms is recorded for the purpose of selling ads?

Also I regularly attend more than 50-person zoom calls without a hiccup. Google I think requires an enterprise plan to get to that limit, and I don’t even know what the name of their video conferencing product is at this point.



> Don’t Google and Microsoft answers both require accounts, and carry with them the expectation that everything you do on their platforms is recorded for the purpose of selling ads?

For Google, the answers are "sorta but not really", and "no":

https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9303164: "Note: Guests on the web don't need a Google account to participate in a meeting." The initiator of a meeting needs a G Suite account, but others can join without one.

https://gsuite.google.com/learn-more/security/security-white...: "Google does not collect, scan or use data in G Suite Core Services for advertising purposes."

(Speaking for myself, not Google.)


I don't think either of those are true for meet.




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