Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act by ratww on Friday March 27, 2020 @11:01PM (#22708830)

> run apps from inside the DMG instead of copying them to /Applications and deleting the disk image

First, there's nothing wrong with that.

Also, some apps display a message asking to be moved to /Applications when launched from a DMG.

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Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act by pfranz on Saturday March 28, 2020 @01:23AM (#22709416)

> First, there's nothing wrong with that.

Sure, you can technically run .app from most places. It becomes problematic in that you can't write to that directory or self update the app if it's still in the DMG. If you reboot you have to know to remount before launching. Not having it in /Applications also becomes a mess if you're in a multi-user environment.

> Also, some apps display a message asking to be moved to /Applications when launched from a DMG.

This is the kind of friction and extra dialog boxes I'm sure they were avoiding.

Personally, I hate pkg files. I wish macOS had a better flow for unsavvy users to deal with DMG and app files.

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Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act by saagarjha on Saturday March 28, 2020 @03:32AM (#22709789)

There is also a feature called App Translocation that further restricts the abilities of applications launched from disk images.

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Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act by rspeed on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:25AM (#22735806)

Unsigned disk images.

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