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

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796 points _Microft | 1 comments | 31 Mar 20 11:41 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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paulgpetty ◴[31 Mar 20 12:47 UTC] No.22736970[source]▶
Two questions this raises, for me at least:

How do I know I’ve completely uninstalled all the things Zoom installed?

And, if Zoom provided a separate uninstaller (like many apps do) and it was verified to purge all of the stuff they installed (along with the uninstaller); would that appease people's concerns?

For now I’m sticking with the iOS app for video & their web-based experience for desktop sharing...

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Hackbraten ◴[31 Mar 20 14:29 UTC] No.22737834[source]▶
If you have Homebrew installed, you can run `brew cask zap zoomus` to get rid of all the things (as far as we know) Zoom has installed.

If you prefer to remove it manually, here’s the list of files and folders Homebrew will delete on `brew cask zap zoomus`:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/a6026e0a36c22...

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saagarjha ◴[02 Apr 20 05:37 UTC] No.22756510[source]▶
Your list seems to be missing a couple of files that the Zoom uninstaller cleans up.
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1. Hackbraten ◴[02 Apr 20 12:54 UTC] No.22758365[source]▶
That's deliberate. Homebrew always runs the Zoom uninstaller first before going through the list.

Running the uninstaller is enforced by the `pkg` declaration. See also: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/a6026e0a36c22...