Hacker News Reader

Comment by afandian | Hacker News Reader

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.

View on HN

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

You can also use “brew cask zap zoomus” to remove preference files, browser plugins, logs.

Does this also work for non-brew installs?

Homebrew Cask's uninstall scripts are basically a community-maintained "best guess" at to how to full uninstall each piece of software. It's generally pretty reliable, and I do use it to remove non-brew installs sometimes.

Note: I have contributed casks to Homebrew Cask before.

You can add `--force` and zap will also work on non-brew installs. The paths are community-contributed, so watch out (you can print the paths with `brew cask cat <name>`).

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

    brew analytics off

Or better yet, switch to MacPorts - https://www.macports.org/

Isn't that more like Debian popularity contest ?

https://popcon.debian.org/

No. Homebrew sends a per-installation unique identifier to a third party (Google), tracking your location across different IPs, whether you want it to or not.

Popcon is first-party, and is entirely opt-in. It doesn’t send anything unless you want it to.

popcon is opt-in.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com