@marcoarment Seems an URL Shortener would only obscure the meeting password by one step.

A public link is a public link- I suppose a url shortener could allow analytics of who clicked on it (it’s own privacy issue?)

@marcoarment I could be wrong because Zoom is confusing, but I think requiring pre-registration is an option even for normal (non-webinar) meetings: https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0065026 (at least this is true of my enterprise account)

It is no silver bullet, but at least you can check for suspicious email addresses ahead of time.

@marcoarment Webinar is really the only way to have admin controls. I ran this for our association during COVID and it worked well enough.

It was also a low enough bar that our older members were able to join (Florida).

@marcoarment

I help run Zoom for our Sunday church services with about 50 or 60 Zoom attendees. We use the waiting room feature. Anyone not recognized can maybe have a few questions asked. As someone else mentioned, we also turn on most of the restrictions (don’t allow people to unmute themselves, no whiteboard or screen sharing, etc). During open comment time, people can raise their virtual hand and the host can unmute them, and be quick with the mute button if the speaker is an ass.