I would do this for just 1.99

I'd honeytrap this with a software camera that just plays filth and shock sites on a loop :)
- The goal with software like windows is to eventualy take away all control. If you can run unaproved software, you can't even join the teams call. Then you will see stuff like this.
  
  I own a small USB stick that acts as a camera. But in reality it’s just a HDMI input on the other end. Now beat that with software
  
  Years ago, I'd laugh at this.
  Yet it slowly becomes reality with every passing year. It's bad enough that we've essentially lost pay-to-own in favour of subscription models for a lot of popular software.
  On our corp network, the amount of GPOs I've had to mangle together just to make Win11 usable is insane. The users are still going to have a fit in October.
- This, but it's not a loop 😏

The real goal is to then charge the user $2.99 to block their camera from being turned on.
- Make it an auction
  
  "fuck, I don't have enough money for park avenue"

Do it and you'd see my camera cover
- I prefer the classic post it note personally.
  
  I feel that a faulty webcam driver that causes a kernel panic would work best. They turn your camera on and you drop from the call.

All you would see is my camera cover, lol
- I think Dell once patented a mechanical cover system for their laptops.
  
  All the laptops I have owned over the last 10 years have a mechanical shutter to cover the camera. None have been Dell.

You like looking at the back of a piece of electrical tape?
- All you would see is my floor and a pile of wires
  My webcam falls off and I just leave it there

tbh I'd be more likely to want to turn it off
- You’d get a pious, stating that someone paid 1.99 to turn your camera an. For just 5.99 you can make sure it stays off.
  This could also be implemented as a bidding war like eBay.
  
  This is like that libertarian/ancap copypasta.

Yknow one great thing that costs about 1.99 (one time cost)?
Those little plastic slidy bits that cover up the laptop webcam and mic.
- It's weird that people used to be concerened with covering their laptop camera, but people don't care about their phone camera.
  
  "Most of the time your phone is in your pocket" he says writing on his phone...
  
  i really miss pop-up cameras on phones.
  good peace of mind knowing the fucker is tucked away inside.
- Some laptops come with that built in, or you could use some scotch tape and a little square of paper for free
  
  I used the sticky part of a post-it before I had a laptop with a built in slider

love my frameworks mic and camera hardware switches.
- One of it's greatest features.

Fortunately, browsers have safeguards against this sort of thing (activating the camera without user interaction)
…right?
- Zuck always has a piece of tape over his camera when you see his laptop. That’s all you need to know.
  
  I saw probably the same photo as you! The article wasn't even about that, we just noticed it in the photo. I immediately went and taped over my camera.
- Both my work laptop and personal laptop have mechanical shutters that can only be opened by hand.
  They're both Thinkpads.
  
  They hand those out at conventions too (or you can buy them, I guess). It's basically just a small sticker that you can just stick over your shutterless camera and now it has a shutter.
  
  One of the main motivating factors for me to get a Lenovo.
- Just last week we found a bug in our system in that if an user accepts a meet on pc while also having the phone app open, the meet is opened in both devices, - that alone could end very badly.
- In my experience people click accept without reading or thinking, and usually remember this setting which they may have already done previously.
  In any case all my cameras have physical blockers
- Browsers and some operating systems.

It’s a fucking joke and so many of you are being smug with “not me!”
- Not me!
  
  Not me!
- Half the userbase is on the spectrum, and cannot discern satire from a serious post.
- Laddie, the whole Internet is going so to shit, that it's hard to discern satire from real bullshit.

I just don't plug a camera in
- $4.99 to plug in their camera
  
  Considering the implications for making that happen, that's hella cheap.

But i thought everyone helicopters during meetings. How else am i supposed to meet my step goal

Shit, I'd pay more than that each time.

My camera has a cover 😂😂😂 I hope you like your screens pitch black because it’s the only thing you will see

Does the person on the other end get a notification or do they just remain oblivious to their boss spying on them?
- No usually you do not get an immediate notification, but you can indeed see it by constantly checking you small camera window in the corner of the meeting. But you have to stay focused.

Jokes on you, I got mic and cam on a physical USB-switch. So unless I go in "conference mode", your attack is futile

Join the NSA and get paid for it

What app is this?!
- This is the new version of Microsoft Tesms

Need to print one of these

Is this legit? Brave's AI summary claims that Teams indeed gives this option to the host. However, it points to a Teams documentation page that does not mention such feature.
- AI
  Why would you trust any AI like that
  
  Holy shit.
  He's at -22 right now, and you at +41.
  He obviously isn't trusting the AI, he's asking here to verify it since he couldn't find any first-hand information to contradict it.
  Lemmy is already getting to be more fucking toxic than reddit. JFC.
  
  I don't blindly trust AI responses. However, that was way too concerning not to ask about it, considering that I work from home and that we use Teams.
- It's either my broken self or a symptom of the time that I cannot tell if this is a honest question. I hope it isn't.
  Just in case: It's not a real thing. Yet.
  
  It was an honest question. I have seen various other horrible features, like Glassdoor allowing paying employers to remove negative ratings, so I freaked out a bit in case Teams has hidden features as well.
  I know this is shitpost, but since there was another indication of such feature existing (although untrustworthy - the Brave Search's AI summary), I wanted to confirm.
- Beyond the other answers stating that this isn't real:
  Teams doesn't do one off charges for functionality like this. All functionality is managed by licensing, managed through your workplace's Azure tenant. Don't have the license, don't have the feature. Need the feature? Time to work with Microsoft billing to get you a new license (or additional one) and then your IT team to have the license applied to your account.
  There aren't usually any upsells displayed to end users. In our environment we've only seen a rare "this functionality is not available on your license, go complain to your admin" type message, but usually it just doesn't display unavailable options.
  On top of all that, Microsoft is dumb, but not this dumb. Last thing their team of lawyers would want is for them to be involved in some sort of "involuntary pornography" case or something.