On: Ask HN: Free alternative to Teamviewer?

[BuildTheRobots]

AnyDesk seems like the most obvious drop-in replacement. It's not awful either, I've used it for remote video editing quite successfully.

I'm less thrilled that for both AD and TV the client and server is the same application. I want to be able to connect to other people's computers without ever having something hook into or have the possibility to display my own desktop.

[amai → BuildTheRobots]

They recently got hacked: https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/alerte/CERTFR-2024-ALE-003/

[archfrog → BuildTheRobots]

I agree fully with you. AnyDesk is pretty cool and mostly works well.

There's a small trick you can use: Run but don't install AnyDesk, that way it won't install its services and so on.

Simply don't ever click on the "Install" button in the app.

[kkfx → archfrog]

Unfortunately have the same "commercial limitation" of TV. RustDesk have none.

[archfrog → kkfx]

You can disable the "commercial usage detected" haressments easily enough:

    https://anydesk.com/en/whitelist-request

[kkfx → archfrog]

it's still a commercial service, with RustDesk or MeshCentral I own/I can own if I wish the entire infra, so I can be let down by a third party problem.