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For me it's not about blackmail, it's about making sure the camera isn't accidentality enabled unexpectedly during a meeting.

The worst that would happen is I'd look kinda unprofessional slurping up some noodles, but having the camera covered allows me to be confident I'm not presenting unless I intend to.



Does that happen often?

We've been 100% Microsoft Teams since March so I'd say that in several hundred calls and conferences since then I've never activated the webcam without intent.


It's not frequent, but the desired number of times is 0 :)

There's been a few times that my camera has activated in a meeting, and shown a black screen because of the cover.

My Lenovo Ubuntu machine has cover built into the casing, which seems ideal. For my Macbook, I use a thin (<.1mm) plastic sliding cover.


It doesn’t matter how often this happens, it matters that it can happen. It is much nicer to have a cover and not worry, then to always remember “did I remember to deactivate the camera?”


Software is hard to use and randomly changes every time a stupid designer decides to shuffle the UI for no reason. So yes it happens.




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