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

I installed Zoom on macOS yesterday and I thought that the install was crashing because this is not the expected behavior. I would double click the download, try to install, and then the installation program would "crash", so I'd try it again. Did that a few times before I realized it was installed. Until now I thought it had somehow gotten far enough in the installation process before crashing that I could at least use the application. I'd been hearing everyone raving about how Zoom was such better software than anything else, and my first experience was their installer doesn't even work.

This was a horrible user experience for me, and I wasn't thinking about security implications at all.

I did this too and didn't put two and two together til now. I just assumed it was a buggy installer that broke with that version of MacOS and tried a different machine

I've defended Zoom in the past for ethical 'slips', but weidly this has tipped me into hating it.

Ok this is it... I was able to disinstall it with

$ brew cask install zoomus $ brew cask uninstall zoomus

so long and thank you for all the fish... Zoom

Presumably if you don't like Zoom's shadiness, you may not like Homebrew's bundled spyware either. Disable it with

    brew analytics off

Isn't that more like Debian popularity contest ?

https://popcon.debian.org/