have to use zoom for my class
have to use zoom for my class
What would be the better option for privacy. Logging into my windows partition and using zoom just for class logging right back out or install zoom on my linux partition?
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Is there a reason why you didn't list "using the web client in firefox and install none of their crap on my machine" among the options you consider ?
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I did not know zoom had a web client
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IIRC they usually try to push you towards installing their
spywaredesktop client and the option to join the meeting from your browser is made as less visible as possible.
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They could also run Firefox as a nonpersistent app in docker, if that makes them feel any better.
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@joelfeila
You can use the 'Firefox Multi-Account Containers' extension for Firefox and create a container for Zoom.-
That is no longer necessary with Dynamic State Partitioning. Every top level domain is automatically given its own container, essentially. The extension is really only useful for logging into sites on two accounts simultaneously.
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First, I would recommend posting this in a privacy community instead, as linux isn’t just for privacy. I don’t like to give comments correcting people without proposing a solution, so I would say just running it in your browser with uBlock Origin and maybe a random user agent switcher if zoom lets you. Also clear your cookies when you are done. If you really want full privacy then just use tor browser for it.
Edit: Also use a burner account that you create while using tor.
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I would just use a private Firefox window to join via the web client. What kind of privacy intrusion are you most worried about?
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just the general microsoft is touch my computer.
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Well then Linux obviously
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The most important kind of privacy intrusion 😹
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Might be able to find a flatpak and use flatseal to restrict it as much as possible
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You can run it on Linux through Firejail.
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oh what that
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Firejail let's you configure what access applications have to your system and sandboxes them.
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Just use the browser client. They try to hide it but you can click thought the small text to launch it. The browser sandbox is one of the most reliably privacy options that we have.
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If you put zoom in a flatpak and tighten its permissions, it won't be able to touch the rest of your system
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Install some distro on an USB stick and ruin it from there
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The zoom Linux client is crappy so if the web one does not work for you I would suggest just booting into windows and using it.
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you are the first to suggest using window. Since I would only log in just for class and right back it it can't really track much.
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Zoom works on Linux just fine
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not going to school would be the best option
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I would keep it simple and use the zoom web client and restrict as much as possible.
However, if you must have an app, they support linux. Then you can sandbox it as you would other apps on your machine.
Going into another partition might be a bit safer, but I'm not sure the privacy vs convinience tradeoff works.
There is a flatpak zoom app. I guess it can be sandboxes somehow. It would most likely not pose any privacy threat outside of zoom.
But keep in mind that zoom got into it's privacy policy, that they can record and use for ai anything you do and say during a meeting (if you didn't allow access to the desktop during the meeting, zoom shouldn't be able to record it, so most likely won't matter for that, only what you send through their servers).