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    1. Generally the more I read about Zoom over time the more weird it gets. I get why it might do something like auto add itself to the dock or escalate privileges to make it easier to full screen itself, but also... why bother? It's not so much invasive as it is needlessly aggressive
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    Like do I think Zoom is out to sell your data on the 2nd party market... maybe? But also prob not. I think it's pretty characteristic of a tech company these days that they'd just rather do a bunch of needlessly shady shit for the purpose of their own very aggressive marketing.
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      My worry is it's not so much that they are lazy on security, my worry is that they display a mentality that doesn't take a real ethical code into account. I don't worry about programming mistakes, I worry that they made bad choices and that they will continue to make bad choices.
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        And while this all could be true of theoretically any application you install it's particularly concerning in an app you install and give camera privileges to...
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          B/c Zoom is focused on just this one thing (while most other video chat services are a biz line of more diverse operations) it means that they focus all their shady decisions on this app w/ its worrying implications, while other companies can implement their shady shit elsewhere
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            Which doesn't make it ok elsewhere, it just means Zoom is an application particularly vulnerable to the aggressive choices tech companies make that end up turning into shady tech and is particularly vulnerable to external analysis b/c it's just one app to look at.
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              So Zoom isn't unique, it's just uniquely centralizing all it's aggressive tech marketing technique bs into a single application, which makes it look uniquely bad and actually does create unique concerns, but is also an effect of many tech cos historically doing this same bs.
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                Why was every start up in the last decade a "tech company"? It wasn't because they had an app, it was because they operated enormous data collection and processing operations, alongside whatever else they were doing, on behalf of their aggressive customer acquisition teams.
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