Zoom’s March 31st terms and conditions Clause 10.4 change stating user conversations could be used in any way they wished, without an opt-out, had ruffled some feathers. It has again been updated to now state they won’t use customer content to train their AI without your consent. Still, it has got many to reconsider their use of Zoom, and in fact there are many other excellent choices out there.
One of my favourites is Jitsi Meet. Not only is it open-source, and you can even self-host it yourself, but it is packed with many features you’d find in most other video conferencing platforms. There are gallery views, breakout rooms, virtual whiteboards, virtual backgrounds, screen sharing, recordings, polls, text chat, raise hands/GIPHY, moderation tools, live streaming, speaker time stats, etc.
What I especially like is the very easy one-link invites to others to join via their desktop or mobile web browser, and that it does not have that 40-minute limit that Zoom places on free meetings. For two weeks running now Zoom has cut off our weekly family meeting early, first it was 17 seconds and last week it was a full one minute early (despite what the meeting time clock showed).
Although it works very well in a browser, you can also install their desktop apps, or mobile apps for Android and iOS.