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by HeWhoLurksLate 2276 days ago
Your entire reply feels overly cynical. No, nobody likes it when companies invade your privacy, a la F & G.

However, saying "it took another megacorp twenty years to fix their privacy problems, so we shouldn't trust $relativelysmallcompany for the next two decades" is not fair to $relativelysmallcompany and doesn't even consider the cultural change it probably took to get $megacorp to actually care about security and user privacy.

Personally, I don't really like Zoom. I use it, and it works okay, but there are a lot of little nitpicks I would like to see addressed- for instance, it'd be really nice to be able to adjust individual member's volume levels or be able to mute them outright as a participant instead of listening to a compressor that needs a new bearing in the background for an entire meeting because they're not using push-to-talk and the host just downloaded the client yesterday. I'm also more than willing to give a company time to fix underlying architecture problems and not demand fixes in the meantime.

I would want to be given the benefit of time to fix problems, wouldn't you?