[Telepathy] Make Google Hangouts voice and video chat work (Ubuntu 14.04)

[Peter Bittner]

Alright, then this is *really* a friggin' crazy net neutrality issue.
Or they have it in their terms of use, then it's just that we have no
right to complain because we don't pay for the service.

In other words, this is a problem that can most probably not be fixed
(by a user) in a technical way. (Awesome, Google, just awesome!) -- Or
just not fixed when sticking to XMPP? I also see that Empathy is
enabling and disabling the Voice, Video, Send File options on a user
also based on the presence status (Available, Away), is that
plausible?

Peter



2015-09-22 11:16 GMT+02:00 Dominik George <nik at naturalnet.de>:
> Hi,
>
>>P.S.: I understand, and I agree, that relying on Google is not
>>necessarily a good thing. ATM though, I'm trying to fix a technical
>>issue, not politics, net neutrality, and so forth.
>
> No. In fact, you *are* trying to fix net neutrality. The reason for your observations is that Google dropped most XMPP features for most users, but not all. This depends on various things, like the state of the involved accounts, if they ever used Hangouts natively, when they were created, and various other things.
>
> You are not seeing a technical issue - you *are* in fact seeing Google's politics, no matter whether you like the criticism or not.
>
> Cheers,
> Nik