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by TD-Linux 3390 days ago
Hangouts uses a bunch of non-standard Hangouts-specific APIs in Chrome. Maybe it's be best to call it "Google-RTC".

https://webrtchacks.com/hangout-analysis-philipp-hancke/

In summary, they use weaker encryption than allowed by the spec, nonstandard ICE (firewall hole punching), nonstandard data channels, and an abandoned way to do multistream.