I'm typically very out of the loop on things but is there any particular reason HN seems to be hell bent on shitting on Zoom this week. Don't recall seeing this much vitriol for a particular product in a while.
You can access Zoom meetings through a pure web interface without installing anything. The experience is somewhat reduced.
1) The lack of e2e encryption despite trying to market themselves as having secure video chat.
2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22749805 (comment in this thread - they literally phish you)
3) https://twitter.com/c1truz_/status/1244737672930824193 abusing the traditional installation process on OSX
EDIT: OK (2) may be a real system prompt - https://twitter.com/DigitalResist0r/status/12452813782932807...? I didn't see anyone else in the twitter thread claim that it was using a real system dialog, so I'd still say it was poor practice of them to have such a shady looking system dialog.
There's no malice there (on the posters' side). If Zoom does better people won't have cause for shining a flashlight on their data privacy policies or security holes. We will see if Zoom grows up fast, since the momentum towards them is already so large I don't see it changing prior to the Fall when schools might risk re-evaluating their tools.