I’ve recently (well, four years ago) posted The Myth of the Modern Hard Switch about on/off switches that looked to be actual physical switches but really just prompted software.
Well, it’s worse with purely software switches, of course.
As you might know, I have used a wide variety of computer-based video conferencing bits of software, and they all have a mute button that purportedly turns off your microphone.
Oh, but no.
Google Meets serves up this helpful reminder:
A helpful reminder that, although you have the mute button on, Google is still listening. It’s just not sharing the audio with the other people.
Note that this displays after I have given Google permission to use the Web camera, and the green light is on. But still. Mute does not mean your audio is off.
