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How to join a Google Meet without logging into Google

Here’s how

Go to fullskr.in/meet instead of the official page. It is fast, and secure - your meeting code never leaves your browser.

Here’s why

The landing page at meet.google.com used to look like this:

google-meet-old

But looks like the enterprise sales team didn’t hit the quarterly goals, and they decided it’s perfectly reasonable to always ask for a Google account. Even if you are trying to join an ongoing meeting from a public or a shared computer:

google-meet-new

Okay, it’s not really 100% hidden, you can still make the old input show, if you click enough. And you can type the code directly in the browser address bar. Or maybe this is a temporary hiccup and it will go back to how it was.

In the meantime, in all our meeting rooms we’ve unbookmarked the Google’s landing page for Meet, and bookmarked fullskr.in/meet instead. It works.


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