You can use a community instance as pointed out by other authors. It’s a pity that they make this change, but still we should be grateful for this open source product that can be hosted by other providers.

Up to 4 ppl, you can use brave talk. For more, use https://meet.calyx.net/ or https://framatalk.org/

Why not use the stock reminders since you are already on iO? You can also use this app. https://www.condution.com/

Edit: I saw it’s already recommended by another user.

No, it was proxying from bing at first place. Then they removed it.

It seems that the user deleted his tweet. https://mashable.com/article/zoom-use-calls-train-ai-artificial-intelligence

It’s funded by the us govt, darpa and American universities. But people won’t look at it just as they do with privacy policies.

Edit: to avoid misunderstanding, I am just stating the ridiculousness of relating Tor to the criminal networks, not some kind of a conspiracy like funded by US organisations.