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You should update the readme to include this context!

Thanks a lot! I had been bypassing manually the zoom client, but lately I felt like they were hiding more and more the browser option (up to the point that sometimes I had to run Chrome to have two chances for the non-client link to appear).

So web-based Zoom cannot detect if Zoom window is not active?

It can still do that, but it can't get what programs you have running or the other data collected by the desktop client.

Beyond the privacy concerns it's a security risk. Their desktop client had a remote code execution vulnerability last year:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/researcher-says-zoom-web-serve...