How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you clicking ‘install’

Re:How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you cli... by luto on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @05:11PM (#22742631)

Jitsi, Google Meet, bigbluebutton -- anything can runs in a browser tab and is more or less confined within it.

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Re:How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you cli... by adtac on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @12:38AM (#22745738)

I wouldn't be surprised if Zoom suddenly started exploiting browser zero days to force install things "for your own good"

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Re:How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you cli... by saagarjha on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @01:55AM (#22746112)

Good thing that this is somewhat difficult to do ;)

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Re:How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you cli... by Aachen on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @05:34PM (#22742874)

Don't know bigbluebutton but at least among Jitsi and Google Meet, Wire is an alternative that is open source and end to end encrypted. They just don't make it easy to host your own, for that I guess Jitsi is the best way to go.

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Re:How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you cli... by behnamoh on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @11:33PM (#22745377)

But how do they remain in business? I'm interested in knowing how say, Jitsi, earns money off of it.

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Re:How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you cli... by oehtXRwMkIs on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @03:04AM (#22746408)

Its wikipedia article describes its funding. It's basically a combination of sponsorships and paid employees working on it.

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Re:How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you cli... by throwaway1777 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @12:01AM (#22745524)

Zoom works in the browser

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