No, in order to have privacy you can choose applications which appeal to different user base and have different tradeoffs. Like Signal, or even WhatsApp.
Zoom appeals to a different user base and offers different features as selling points. Please read the twitter thread mentioned below to understand their perspective.
Originally only two person chats were e2e encrypted, then the added e2e to group chats, but last time I checked (admittedly a year or more back) if one participant in a group chat had an old version of the app, the entire group chat was unencrypted, without an obvious user interface indication of that.
I use (and trust) Signal. I believe Wickr is trusted by people who have resources behind them to know whether it's trustworthy (though it's closed source, so :shrug:).
If you need "used by the masses", then you're gonna be stuck with, I dunno - Facebook public posts? Gmail? Slack? Smoke signals? Nothing that's fit for purpose" if you value privacy...
> No, in order to have privacy you can choose applications which appeal to different user base and have different tradeoffs.
In other words, don't use Zoom.
> Please read the twitter thread mentioned below to understand their perspective.
Their perspective is they don't want to use end to end encryption so they can turn their users in.
Even for ordinary users, this yields no advantage to the user. For users who have reason to fear oppression by the authorities it's quite problematic, and in general everyone else should try to avoid using such things out of solidarity.
Zoom appeals to a different user base and offers different features as selling points. Please read the twitter thread mentioned below to understand their perspective.