While it's annoying that this is the case, pretty much all software on all commonly-used operating systems has complete access to everything. When you install

While it's annoying that this is the case, pretty much all software on all commonly-used operating systems has complete access to everything. When you install software in Windows, either it installs without Administrator permissions (in which case it still has access to every single user file) or it asks for elevation to Administrator, and users blindly click Yes (in which case it has access to the entire machine). When you install software in Unix/Linux, you're almost certainly using sudo, giving up complete control. User permissions on single user systems are almost irrelevant. It's all about blind trust. People think nothing of installing software via "curl | sudo bash", or adding random PPA repositories to apt, downloading a binary and running it as root, or deploying a docker container linked from a blog. I know the risks and I do it all the time, because convenience always wins and popular things are reasonably safe due to the "mob trust" factor. MacOS has made some incremental steps to wall applications off from each other, requiring explicit authorization for some actions via System Preferences toggles, but really, it's just adding inconvenience for your average user, and people will generally blindly agree, in part because some of the categories are too vague or broad (small UI widgets that alter e.g. keyboard bindings or window placement require carte blanche). Phone operating systems are better at this than most, requiring explicit permission to access e.g. contacts, but there are still limits on how protected your data is. Most of the security on phone apps comes from the vetting required by the vendor lock-in stores. Yet we still had apps able to invisibly steal global clipboard contents until earlier this year. So, yeah, it's stupid that Zoom's uninstaller has access to browser cookies, but do you think there's a single piece of software you use that doesn't? Everything on your system has access to everything else in most cases.