Make a call, launch on your own servers, integrate into your app. Apps run stuff in the background and I won’t even get into the stupid stuff they waste CPU time on when you’re never even using them 99.9% of the time. Learn more about Jitsi, a free open-source video conferencing software for web & mobile. Use the browser version of the meeting client. ProTip: Just uninstall all meeting apps from your computer. MySQL: Every web application, howsoever simple or complicated, requires a database for storing collected data. Apache is the most popular web server online, powering nearly 54 of all websites. Jonathan Leitschuh’s original disclosure provides more information about the problem.īrowser-based video conferencing apps may be a better solution in the future-if you’re just using an application in a browser with no software installation, it can’t do shady things like this to your Mac or PC. Apache: Apache is the actual web server application that processes and delivers web content to a computer. If you’d like to keep Zoom installed, Lifehacker‘s quick guide points out you should enable the “Turn off my video when joining a meeting” option for safety. If you haven’t, a Zoom update will likely re-enable the web server. These assume that you’ve uninstalled the Zoom app from your Applications folder first. If you do see Zoom’s web server running and you want to remove Zoom completely from your system, run the following commands. If you see a “ZoomOpene” process running, the web server is running in the background. To discover whether the web server is running, type the following command and press Enter: lsof -i :19421
