[pmarcelll]

> There is one thing we want to make very clear: as noted in our Privacy Statement, we will not use meeting, webinar, or messaging content (specifically, audio, video, files, and messages) for any marketing, promotions, or third-party advertising purposes.

Maybe the most important sentence in the whole announcement.

[tantalor]

Meaning everything else is on the table:

- names of participants, and their ad profiles

- meeting title, time, length

Now you are getting ads for dogfood because your coworker has a new pet.

[soheil]

What if you and everyone replying here get a paid version or just use Google Meet?

I don’t understand why all the negativity comes out when a company decides to stop subsidizing all the engineering, bandwidth, storage, servers, .. costs that goes into a product.

[_jal]

> Now you are getting ads for dogfood because your coworker has a new pet

Or ads targeting key messages right before your team meets with a new vendor.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

or because the meeting was titled "Senior Dev Weekly: Should we eat our own dogfood?"

[BarryMilo]

For now.

[ashtonkem]

Honestly, privacy policies from ad supported companies are worthless. The pressure to break them and share that info is so great that I suspect most just quietly give in to it.

[mdoms]

As we know from multiple experiences, what Zoom says about privacy and the reality of it are very much separate.