

As he writes on his website, this is just a small program that runs in your menu bar or system tray: “It continually checks for the presence of Zoom on your computer, and if found, immediately deletes it.” If Zoom Escaper isn’t direct enough for you, there’s also Zoom Deleter, another of Lavigne’s creations. “Use it at work to decrease your productivity,” says Lavigne.

His 2017 work The Good Life let users sign up to receive 225,000 emails confiscated from Enron during its 2001 implosion, while 2016’s Slow Hot Computer is a website that. Zoom Escaper isn’t the first of Lavigne’s projects to self-inflict computer harm. And if you’re prepared to fake the existence of a child in order to get out of Zoom meetings with your co-workers, then perhaps you have bigger issues with work than a few annoying video meetings. Our opinion was that Upset Baby provided the most excusable reason to drop a call, but also requires that people believe you have a baby.

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Bad Connection: “This one works really well.But who’s crying - is it your roommate, your partner?” Man Weeping: “Those are the sobs of a broken man.I think the sounds need to be a bit more muffled to sell it, but it’s very good.” Construction: “This sounds like you literally stood in the middle of a construction site.Also, I’m not entirely sure what the plan is to sell this as a reason to leave a call?” Here was his opinion of the various effects Zoom Escaper had to offer: But I was able to test the site’s functionality with the help of my colleague, Verge news editor Chaim Gartenberg. If you’re running Zoom Escaper, you can’t actually hear the sound effects yourself.
