Comment by patates

> the Zoom client starts up. It'd be hard to miss

They already have you on video at that point. The summary above is very fair, there's no point trying to throw more PR at this problem. Ignoring other issues and focusing on the main point: They need to increase security by a huge amount by implementing a simple dialog with "Yes" not selected as default. They also need to communicate why they did this to their users and be honest.