And, this cannot be overstated, fucking stupid.

Not that you’re wrong, but you can clearly see Bing in the screenshot lol.

Isn’t that essentially what the Zoom CEO was suggesting a few months ago?

Harm reduction. Read about it, or have someone with more than two brain cells explain it to you.

It (in theory) prevents signal tampering of any kind, which would include injecting advertisements into the stream.

Are you familiar with the concept of a captive market?