Submitted 1 year ago by MagneticFusion@lemm.ee to privacyguides@lemmy.one
I really don’t want to make a Microsoft account but many job interviews are held on Teams. I see that there is a web client which I will definitely use instead of the unofficial Flatpak for Linux.
If I create a Microsoft account with one of my privacy friendly emails (custom domain), would Microsoft start to receive the emails that that account receives? If so, would you suggest that I make a burner Microsoft account for this specific use case?
I may be wrong but I don’t remember needing a Microsoft account for the web client. Click on the link, accept the usage of your mike and camera, and it should be enough. Open a private window if you want more privacy and I’m sure it will still work fine.
If you use Linux, I’d recommend using teams-for-linux. It’s the web client, but in its own little box.
If you really want to be anonymous, you can probably run this app over Tor with the command torify flatpak run com.github.IsmaelMartinez.teams_for_linux or torsocks flatpak run com.github.IsmaelMartinez.teams_for_linux; but occasionally this causes problems. It’s also not great for calls.
Aaaah Microsoft teams, the single worst platform put there.
Linux client mostly doesn’t work by not even starting
Web client doesn’t understand the concept of two open tabs, it will always kill one and require reloads
All tabs redirect Toa generic URL so if you’re in the middle of a call and the page reloads for whatever stupid reason, you’re out the call with no way back
Camera randomly disappears and if that happens, good luck
Messages many times say they are delivered but aren’t
Many times the messenger simply doesn’t receive any messages anymore until you reload the page
Entering into a chat room many times ands up with people.not seeing eachother, and everyone had to drop out and have to get back in to be able to communicate
It always selects the one audio device that isn’t connected
I had like 20 more issues and when I posted it back on Reddit on the Microsoft Teams sub most responses were “lol loser”
Oh Microsoft you suck so SO bad, never change
You can use the Office 365 Extension, create a new profile in your preffered Chromium based browser (just for Teams) and use it their (without Extension it won’t work). I would suggest use the traditional privacy protections too in this profile.
fraksken@infosec.pub 1 year ago
When you get invited into a Teams call you don’t need a microsoft account to join as guest. you’ll get the web interface probably.
Jomn@jlai.lu 1 year ago
Indeed. I always connect as a guest through the browser. Never had any issues.