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Comment by spaceribs

A custom URI wouldn't work as seamlessly as zoom's UX team would have liked. If you hadn't installed zoom, either a nasty message would tell you the protocol wasn't supported, or it would redirect you to a google search.

Their answer was to send people to a URL they controlled and brought you through the install process as easily as possible, but the issue they needed to solve was determining if you needed to have an install or just redirect to the app.

They broke so many security rules just to shave off a few inconvenient seconds, and those seconds rose them to the top.

parent spaceribs 7 years ago

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