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by d110af5ccf 1796 days ago
> Webex doesn't provide screen sharing in larger meetings via WebRTC

Can you not capture your screen manually and make it available to your browser as a generic web cam? (Not that you should have to, but still.)

> [Zoom] don't seem to provide browser meetings at all sometimes

Last time I used it they were engaging in website trickery. You had to click the link to download (and maybe do something else) before it would present you with the "join from browser" link.

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> Can you not capture your screen manually and make it available to your browser as a generic web cam?

I could but I didn't anticipate that issue with larger meetings and it caught me by surprise

My understanding is that the web cam also uses different compression, leading to issues with readability

> Last time I used it they were engaging in website trickery. You had to click the link to download (and maybe do something else) before it would present you with the "join from browser" link.

Tried that since I've already heard about these dark patterns, but wasn't able to. It's easier and more intuitive to add a local account on windows.

Zoom is the shittiest pile of dark patterns. I hate it.

But I can confirm that it works just fine in the browser on Linux.