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llamaLord | 1 year ago

You can turn off self-view by default.

The day I realised this, was the day 75% of my zoom fatigue disappeared.

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noneeeed|1 year ago

We use Google Meet and this is one of the big things I miss from Zoom, there appears to be no way to turn the self view off. On every call I have to turn it off manually.

I find that a lot of people who say they turn their camera off say they do it because they don't like watching themselves on screen, and don't realise this is optional. Personally I think all the video call systems should turn it off by default, I've never understood what purpose seeing yourself all the time is supposed to have. It would be like having a meeting room full of mirrors.

Maakuth|1 year ago

Cameras unintentionally left open would be much more typical if this was not the default. I agree that it still should be possible to have it off in every meeting after changing some setting, though.