In short: Zoom E2EE eventually will encrypt corporate conferences, but will not solve the privacy problems they have, because their structure stills the same.
Seems it will be a feature just to make customers have the feeling they are safe (and pay more, indeed).
But, as usual, they are not.
Poor Keybase.
Don’t shed any tears for anyone making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year while a third of the US has approximately zero income.
How do you compete with that?
Most users don't care about security/privacy and maybe that's fine but it was nice to see a company that seemed to genuinely care about these things.
[1] going by the commonly used definition
You can do all the open source e2e crypto trendiness you like, but unless you’re a nonprofit like Signal that can generate a stream of donations, if you don’t eventually get people to pay you for the service, you’re not going to be able to stick around.
This was the best possible outcome for them, given the circumstances.
I a way, any platform that is able to evade government surveillance will be deemed as an exception, and anyone using or building such platform will be a suspect.