Honestly, the best you can do is try a bunch of stuff and research the company if you like it. It also really depends on how you define an ethical company. Even if you remove capitalism from it, if you look into deeply enough you're going to find that every company has done something unethical or works with an unethical party within their supply chain.
Maybe it's the interests I have, but those chat rooms may have people but not a lot of activity. Also, the specific people I want to chat with don't use Matrix.
An art project/bench outside of my high school the last day of senior year while waiting for friends to finish finals. I forget the term, but the bench was covered in small glass/ceramic pieces to form a pattern on it. Super uncomfortable, would not recommend
If/when this happens it will just lead to a rise in aftermarket products to disable the feature.
Hell, since they will probably use AI to parse the audio you can probably use it to fuck with your friends. Like when people would put out hyper-specific FB ads but via cars.
If they don't call it Chick-fa-licks I'll be disappointed. I mean as a whole I find the company upsetting already, but I will add disappointment to that.
I always wonder how much of the ad hell some websites have is necessary to maintain the website and pay employees a (hopefully) livable wage vs pure greed.
One of the worst things, in my opinion, that came from the old Internet was just how shady and sometimes dangerous ads are.
Thoughts like this are likely how The Church of Euthanasia got started.