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Privacy masking obscures your host identity and home surroundings before you join a video call via a link, preventing accidental exposure of your personal environment to other meeting participants.

Safe defaults minimize privacy risk by disabling screen sharing and enabling a muted microphone by default when joining a video call, ensuring your home environment and audio are not broadcast without explicit action.

Yes, context-aware joining adapts the privacy masking strategy based on the specific meeting type and your predefined user preferences, ensuring appropriate host identity protection for different video conferencing scenarios.

No specific software is required. The privacy masking strategy applies to video conferencing scenarios where joining via links is common, covering the workflow from opening the link to muting and joining.

The best way to avoid exposing your surroundings when clicking a meeting link is to use a join workflow that enforces a mask strategy with safe default behaviors, obscuring host identity before the video feed connects.