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If you must use zoom, use it in a browser; uninstall their app.
by dsr_ 5y ago
If you must use zoom, use it in a browser; uninstall their app.
- elliekelly 5y agoI must have uninstalled their app on my Macbook ten times now but somehow it keeps coming back. I’ll click a link to join a meeting and the app launches.
- agustif 5y ago> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28210076 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28210076 They recover the app from your backups if available when launching. Try appCleaner or something like that, and you might need to delete it from any TimeMachine backups too, lol
- GekkePrutser 5y agoThis is exactly the kind of dickery I hate zoom for. The same thing with installing a backdoor and then blatantly refusing to remove it when found out. Luckily Apple did the job for them :P Their attitude is so wrong. I don't understand how people still use it.
- MattGaiser 5y agoI didn't know that Zoom allowed that. Thank you.
- dheera 5y agoYou have to pretend that Zoom doesn't work and then it eventually gives you the "join from browser" link. When you click on a Zoom meeting, it will prompt you to launch xdg-open -- cancel it. Then hit launch again -- cancel the xdg-open again -- and then the "Join from browser" link should pop up after a few times. Sometimes it tries to capture you, I had to click on trucks and trains for 15 minutes before it let me in, and then had to apologize for being 15 minutes late to the meeting.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoBut it doesn't work particularly well that way! It's workable, but calls seem to have worse quality and more latency. By all means, use it if you feel it's necessary, but you're giving up a lot!
- dsr_ 5y agoYes! It's a literal tradeoff between security and functionality, the same tradeoff that people make every day. Figure out which one you want; Zoom is unwilling to give you both, even when you're paying them.