[yardie]

Zoom was popular with at home schoolkids. Because to use Teams you had to have a Microsoft acccount first. Zoom was a link, a meeting ID, and password. Sometimes just a link.

[wholinator2]

I've actually never had to put a password in to any zoom call. It was always just the link. Only when calling from a phone did i have to put even the meeting ID in

[porridgeraisin]

You can optionally add the password as a query parameter to the zoom link itself. The links you got probably had that.