Show HN: Zoom Redirector

I'm guessing this is related to the "Zoom monitors activity on your computer" story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22657384

It's something I've wanted to write for a long time, and that tweet finally spurred me to do it. Hadn't seen the HN thread though!

So web-based Zoom cannot detect if Zoom window is not active?

It can still do that, but it can't get what programs you have running or the other data collected by the desktop client.

Beyond the privacy concerns it's a security risk. Their desktop client had a remote code execution vulnerability last year:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/researcher-says-zoom-web-serve...

I was unaware of that. Just frustrated it added an annoying “zoom” icon to my touch bar without my permission. I feel like this is “IE4 Toolbar” level crap.

You should update the readme to include this context!

You can hide it ...

The problem isn't that it's visible. The problem is that it's there.

I doubt it. Reading the comments in your link shows that it was just unsubstantiated fearmongering.

I expect it is more to do with the fact that you don't need the Zoom app and why should you have to download it when pretty much everything works perfectly through the web client?

Thanks a lot! I had been bypassing manually the zoom client, but lately I felt like they were hiding more and more the browser option (up to the point that sometimes I had to run Chrome to have two chances for the non-client link to appear).