I've been thinking about this, what led to the rise of Zoom? The pandemic sure helped, but, why this platform in particular?

Skype seemed to be dominant prior to the pandemic. I would say Zoom's functionality is better for group meetings. Does this account for their rise, was it entirely organic?

Reminiscent of the rise of Facebook.

Also of note, it's conceivable that the CCP has access to their feeds.

Personal experience. Prior to the pandemic, on the somewhat uncommon occasions that my meetings required someone to video call, it was almost always done with Skype (the alternatives were Zoom and Google Hangouts). Early in the pandemic, Skype retained this, but it quickly flipped to everyone using Zoom. Found it rather bizarre how quickly everyone flipped, without any real reasoning given (perhaps the original meeting organizers had reasons in mind, granted, and everyone just followed along afterwards, like with masks).

I have always been suspect about Zoom since the boom, i do use it for work by time, as i do with Teams, and Skype for Business when available (that i still prefer to be honest)

I farily think Zoom has been a black hat ops for multiple reasons, of which the tops are

• So many companies, schools, governments, started to use it on a rush -> possibly thousands of videos / data are being exfiltrated
• People used the free version without even knowing what it was by real (specially kids from mobiles / notebooks)
• It has been full of flaws and had in multiple quarters of the last year many attacks / hacks, they didn't enable encryption until late last year (and is not an option enabled by default for entry level users) put it together with what wrote in the 2 points up.... you wonder if they do actually care of their security but are stupid, or if their valuable information's were/are meant to be available to external entities, just think at how many hours of confidential meetings registered on their cloud they have....

Another zipper head capitalizing. God, if I could take half of these commie cunts out myself...

This is why opensource end-to-end encryption programs need support such as qTox and Jitsi. Any company that doesn't offer that has ulterior motives.

The Chinese company Zoom?

Them: "Nah, It'll be fine...."