Tell HN: Zoom runs application from Time Machine backup when uninstalled on Mac

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6 years ago

I noticed something really peculiar this morning when I was invited to a Zoom meeting. I had uninstalled Zoom the night before but when I clicked the Join Meeting link, I was still prompted by the browser to open the zoom.us application. I went ahead and clicked OK to open it and I got the OSX popup: "You're opening the application "zoom.us" for the first time. Are you sure you want to open this application?" (https://imgur.com/nsOV3d5)

I checked my Applications folder and didn't see Zoom there so I clicked the "Show Application" button in the popup and it ended up opening the Applications folder from one of my Time Machine backups with Zoom installed.

I tested this with both Firefox and Chrome with the same results. Now I don't know if this is an OSX specific issue, a browser issue, or a Zoom issue.

Can anyone else confirm the same or similar behavior on Mac? If anyone can also shed some insight about this behavior, it would be much appreciated.

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