Zoom Privacy Concerns and The Open Source Alternative Jitsi Meet 

Thanks, Tom. When everyone began jumping on the zoom wagon, I immediately started to offer jitsi as an option in my company.

Finally someone showing Jitsi love!!!! Many years ago I setup their video bridge and onsite conference software that runs their free meet website. It worked so well even back then and was so easy to setup.

Before ZOOM had privacy issue reported on news around the globe, I started looking for FOSS as an alternative and deployed on my SGP VPS. Just yesterday I managed to setup the Jitsi-Meet and will promote very soon. Today I found your video which will help me refer to anyone to think over using the commercial products. Thank you so much for this useful review video.

I had no idea Jitsi was that easy. Jitsi is awesome!

I used jitsi meet sometimes but jitsi desktop is still my favorite application for video calling.

Hey Lawrence, ever thought about the possibilities MiroTalk SFU brings to your virtual meetings? While Jitsi has proven to be a reliable solution, MiroTalk SFU introduces innovative features that redefine your video conferencing experience, ensuring a seamless blend of familiarity and advanced capabilities.

Nextcloud Video conference plugin works perfectly for us and it's free and 100% encrypted and you own the installation 😁

never heard of this before. I really need to look into it more and see if we can make use of this at work instead of cisco. and maybe even compare it to MS Teams. especially if we can host it internally.

Here is hoping you do a tutorial on setting this up with the self hosted version...

Thank you for the suggestion. I've done a quick test and it seems very simple to use. The other features (encryption, open source) make it a top app to dive into.

What about Nextcloud talk it pretty neat and mostly private on their own server at their company.

Hip hip! I agree Jitsi ftw. I never liked Zoom when I used it. Just my 2c

Jitsi creates an immediate problem if, like me, you will not use Google on principle. Jitsi tells you on startup that you cannot expect the best experience if you do not use Chrome / Chromium as your browser. I think you would have been better to make that point clear upfront.

Jitsi is a good alternative I have it running in docker container using docker compose took a little bit of time to get it running the way I want but running on digital ocean droplet without much trouble.

Hi Tom, just a week ago I tried to setup jitsi on a virtual root server. Indeed the install was pretty easy even with setting up LetsEncrypt certificates. Creating a conference was working but as soon a second person joined the connection crashed. I'd love to see you making a demo of the setup and maybe pointing out how to secure it properly. All the best from Germany.

Thanks, Tom so very much.

Good observations....

Very nice alternative ! Thank's for sharing ;-)

Please do how to selfhosted it with let's encrypt 👍❤

Nice to see jitsi has gone from strength to strength, used to use it as a SIP client at a call centre years ago

First. Good job on video. Jitsi sounds cool, I'll check it out. On a side note, at 8:00 lets get real for a second if you personally did not encrypt your data, it should not be considered encrypted. If you are depending on a service to do the encryption you are just channeling Blanch DuBois, "I have always relied on the kindness of strangers".

ThinkPads, Debian/Pop, and opensource. Subbed!

Hey! Good to see Jitsi getting some love. :-)

Yep, from the moment I saw they would put an app running on the task bar, without your consent, I knew I did not like it.

Thx much for the Jitsi review - I stopped using Zoom last end of March in favor of Jitsi and have to say I love the simplicity! Also, Question for you and others here... On laptops or desktops, sign in to Jitsi is very simple and straight forward, but on cell phones, there appears to be the requirement to download the Jitsi App. Correct? I was hoping no downloads would be a part of the landscape at all... Thanks again and I will definitely continue to follow you!

If I had a sys admin who recommended zoom he would be fired on the spot. Good video 👍 zoom sends your video conference to the zuck

I thought the jitsi logo was a human stomach at first

But there's no optional desktop program and it only officially supports chrome and complains if I use Brave or Firefox.

Have you looked at BigBlueButton? I mean it's more education orented, but how does it compare to Jitsi?

thx good input!

big blue button?

I wonder if their free server will be able to handle the load if lots of zoom people jump ship for this service?

Thanks for this Tom. Two questions: 1. Is the video/audio encrypted (E2E) ? 2. Have you looked into Matrix/Riot.im?

my apologies I'm unwilling to give you a thumbs up because I have been led to believe somehow Facebook tracks when thumbs up are given therefore that is something I no longer participate with nevertheless I do support your cause and I appreciate your information I also added your video this video to two of my public folders on my channel

Hi Tom, I have looked into jitsi in the past to deploy a video conferring solution and I didn’t like the following: 1- by default when you host it it’s open anyone with the link is able to start a meeting, yes you can lock it but we were not able to find an easy way to link that lock to only allow our ldap users and creating 200+ users and passwords is a hassle 2- if I remember correctly the audio/video was not encrypted and that is a concern Huge fan of your content wish you all the best

Thank you sir, do you to the best of your knowledge, think it can be more private and secure than close code software out there?

Is there a way to do 1:1 only meetings and/or waiting rooms with Jitsi?

I would also like to know how to set up a server on my Linux computer.

How does privacy compare between Zoom and gotomeeting?

Hi, could you please explain how to host my calls myself rather than rely on public servers? Thank you in advance

If you do another video can you compare it to rocket chat + matrix for self hosting?

I created a Jitsi meet video conference and sent the joining link to participants but when they joined they were on Jitsi but not connected to me. Had to abandon it and revert to Zoom. Still haven't been able to find out what the issue could have been. Does anyone know? Can't find a step-by-step instruction anywhere.

Hey Tom, thx for the tips! Do you have an equivalent for simultaneous translation ? I have a client who's doing simultaneous translation, he's looking for away to doing thought video conference. The translator (the person, not an app) needs to be able to ear both parties and those parties should be able to ear only the translator.

We tried the server install of Jitsi and already tuned some settings for better audio (I work in an audio postproduction), but we cannot fix the video quality on the receiver´s view. It´s always really bad, although we send HD! Sometimes it can be tuned by sharing the desktop temporarily and then going back to video. Does anyone know a fix for that?!

I've always loved your work and this channel. I've always done my best to listen, you've changed my internet experience once I got my first pfSense up and running. I've been planing to run a private Jitsi server for my family, but I ran into a problem. I have dynamic DNS from my ISP, I've created some self-signed certificates, I've installed Jitsi server, I did a NAT Port Forward with ports 80, 443, 4443 on tcp and 10000 on udp, but I keep getting private ip connections, Jitsi works perfectly locally but on the internet it fails on udp connections. If you ever find to install your own Jitsi server behind a pfSense and find a solutions to make it work, please share your experience, because I would really like to solve this. I mean other than a VPN to have the same ip range with the router, I can't find another solution. Love you guys, Thank you

Should be mentioned that Jitsi Messenger and Jitsi Meet have not much in common, technology wise.

We wanted to use jitsi as a safer alternative to Zoom, but for some reason or another, many people have troubles getting it to run on their laptops. Issues with not using the correct browser, issues getting the cam and/or mic activated... It's not as plug and play as it seems... Any hints?

Zoom is end to end encrypted - it's just that there are ends you are not aware of. I had nothing but problems with Zoom. The host would suspend a meeting for a break and when I rejoined there would be no audio and I could not get audio back. I forced them to you an alternative and they chose Teams. I'm no fan of M$ but it did work much better than Zoom

Is no one going to talk about the fact this was uploaded on April 1st?

If you're concerned about privacy, why are you using Chrome as your web browser? (Unfortunately, Jitsi only "officially" supports Chromium, but that is thankfully changing in a couple weeks.)

up to how many participants in the meeting?

Thank you. What about BigBlueBitton ¿ "-)

i simply don't understand how zoom is this popular ESPECIALLY for enterprise and business use. It seems like a fluke more than anything else, combined with just corporate decision makers being lazy: "oh i used this at home with my family cuz it was free, so...may as well use the same thing at work". Google meet, Skype, Cisco WebEx all have equivalent features (sometimes better) and are from long standing industry giants (at least partially subverting the whole "i don't know these guys, do i trust them with data" thing, especially since most companies would already have data with one of more of these companies like schools using google for work, or companies using microsoft for email and office365). The only advantage to zoom i can think of is personal use where you don't want to pay anything, and even there, if you're already on google/have a google account, why not use duo? (zoom has some extra features, but if you really need those then you're better off paying anyways).

JitSi-Ception at 5:20

My school makes us use zoom

we use rainbow

Does FreePBX has a video call/conferencing feature?

hi Tom. Great video again. We use ZOOM for giving webinars/product demo's (stuff thats already on the internet). Could that be harmful for my company?

But Jitsi lacks a lot of features like Remote Desktop Support ... I do agree Zoom seems to do some shady stuffs, but there arent another solution like it .. opensource or closed source ...

2023 re up

What is the video resolution of jitsi like. Zoom has recently disabled HD resolution which makes it hard to share a camera pointing at a whiteboard.

Jitsi is not available for windows?

Your videos should be classes for a college degree

The irony of using Google chrome to demonstrate Jitsi

tl;dr: encrypted multi-participant real-time high-definition video is Hard aF The TechCrunch article specifically mentions that Jitsi is *not* e2e encrypted. And Jitsi's github page basically says as much: > "Jitsi Meet uses a P2P mode when there are just 2 participants in a call…So what happens when there are more than 2 participants? Then the media gets routed through…our very own Jitsi Videobridge.…media is decrypted by the bridge and encrypted again when sending it out…" Call that e2e if you want. To my eyes it's not much different than Zoom (or others). So Jitsi gets: ✅ FOSS ❌ End-to-end Encryption If your #1 priority is privacy via encryption, then maybe internet video conferencing just isn't for you.

Can I run a Jiti server on a Raspberry Pi 4?

Do you have any thoughts on Ciscos WebEx meeting platform?

great content thank You ! But .. please .. speak more slowly :) hard to understand it all as a foreigner !

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Just use Skype.