Zoom adding advertisements to the free tier of its service

Re:Zoom adding advertisements to the free tier of its service by pmarcelll on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:49AM (#29080431)

> 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.

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Re:Zoom adding advertisements to the free tier of its service by tantalor on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:02AM (#29080565)

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.

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Re:Zoom adding advertisements to the free tier of its service by soheil on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:35AM (#29081875)

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.

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Re:Zoom adding advertisements to the free tier of its service by _jal on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:44AM (#29081095)

> 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.

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Re:Zoom adding advertisements to the free tier of its service by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:04AM (#29081394)

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

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Re:Zoom adding advertisements to the free tier of its service by BarryMilo on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:42AM (#29081072)

For now.

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Re:Zoom adding advertisements to the free tier of its service by ashtonkem on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:59AM (#29081306)

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.

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Re:Zoom adding advertisements to the free tier of its service by mdoms on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:14PM (#29084245)

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

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