alt Hacker NewsI do not have the Zoom app in any form installed. I'd much rather use it in the browser. When I close the tab, Zoom is gone. After the COVID era bullshit of Zoom installing a utility that gives root access to anything, I've never installed it. Luckily, all of that came out before I started using Zoom.
There's a solution to both:
1. Not make web browser general-purpose runtimes for arbitrary software.
2. OS builds a general-purposes runtime that's completely sandboxed. So users can run more complex software without needing to worry about cruft being installed on their system.
Unfortunately, browser builders have decided that web browsers are #2.