arkadiyt / zoom-redirector

Zoom Redirector is a browser extension that transparently redirects any meeting links to use Zoom's browser based web client.

xoom-redirector

Note (3/5/2022):

Zoom has issued a trademark violation against this extension and had Google remove it from the Chrome webstore. I'd love it if you could give me a retweet or quote tweet and tag Zoom - maybe with enough support they'll reverse their decision. In the meanwhile I have republished the extension under a new name: Xoom Redirector

Table of Contents

• What's it for
• Installation
• Changelog
• Getting in touch

What's it for

When joining a Zoom meeting, the "join from your browser" link is intentionally hidden. This browser extension solves this problem by transparently redirecting any meeting links to use Zoom's browser based web client.

Installation

• Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xoom-redirector/ocabkmapohekeifbkoelpmppmfbcibna
• Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zoom-redirector/
• Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/dkhjempaiackknhjkkaidppoepkdamen
• Opera: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/zoom-redirector/

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG.md.

Getting in touch

Feel free to contact me on Signal: @arkadiyt.01

zoom-redirector's Issues

[bug] Need to enter connection details twice in private mode

If I go to Chromium incognito/Firefox private mode and try to join a meeting with this extension enabled, I need to:

1. input the connection details (display name and optionally password)
2. accept Zoom's privacy policy
3. input the same connection details again

Note that if I do a page refresh instead of inputing the details at step 1), Zoom automatically redirect me to the privacy policy page, so I imagine that this is due to some browser cookie(s) being set upon first connection to the zoom.us domain, any way around this?

Outdated versions on Firefox, Edge & Opera extension stores

As stated in title, on those stores the version is still 1.0.2, instead of 1.0.5 of Chrome Web Store.

Is there any reason they're not updated to the latest as well yet?

Manual installation for Firefox

Very nice add-on, thank you for making it. As others may also do, I prefer to vet the code of the addons I install. So I've tried manually to install manually this in Firefox.

I've taken this repository, zipped it, and renamed the extension from .zip to .xpi. Since Firefox needs extensions to be signed, I've also disabled xpinstall.signatures.required in Firefox. Firefox says it appears to be corrupt without specifying more detail.

Has anyone had any success with this method or has an idea as to what I should fix?

Feature request: handle subdomains and non-digit based IDs

Looks like the regex just checks for digits at the moment. The ID in the path can contain arbitrary characters. Paid users can create a customised personal meeting ID. That may be with a /my/ path though.

Organisations also seem to get a subdomain under zoom.us, so that should be captured and prepended.

Take this all with a pinch of salt though, I'm just going off links I've seen shared.

Zoom has disabled their web client

The plugin does not work if a conference password has been set.

It results in a "403 Forbidden" error

Renamed version not working in Chrome?

Had no trouble with the redirects until Google disabled the original (#16). But now with the new Xoom Redirector version 1.0.2 installed, it is not redirecting and I keep getting the Zoom.pkg download and have to manually click a few steps to find back the web meeting again.

I do not see anything in the console related to the Xoom Redirector extension. I tried getting rid of any cookies/localStorage/IndexDB that Zoom might have been using to track that I [well, they…] had already downloaded the installer in case that made a difference. I even tried enabling the extension in Incognito mode and pasting in a Zoom link there but same behavior. And it never mattered before whether I had the native client installed or not anyway.

The new extension does show up in the "Full Access" list for my Zoom links, but I noticed the name of it is grey for some reason:

It stays grey even if I pin it or allow it in incognito mode, nothing I've tried makes a difference or indicates why it is grey in the first place. Now I tried removing the extension and re-adding it, with no change to any of this.

Any ideas or other things to try troubleshoot?

Update: also enabled developer mode for extensions, turned "Collect Errors" on and still nothing. No errors show, there is no background page to inspect, no signs of life that the extension is doing anything at all except exist as an installed extension.

Another extension for Slack

Just like X[z]oom slack is also an offender. Could you please build one for slack? May be one needs to think of a non-trademark name for it too. :-)
Thanks

Feature Request: Disable download of Zoom.pkg

Currently there is autodownload of Zoom.pkg.

I assume users of this package would not want that.

zoom.us/meeting/ type links

Some Zoom links are in the format http://zoom.us/meeting/123456789 and this extension doesn't support them.

Reference: https://sju.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/1942/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=29897

Edit: It has come to my attention that /s/ type meetings are supported, but this issue incorrectly stated that it was not (from a review on Chrome Web Store)

No video / audio in Firefox

Thank you so much for making this addon to work around this dark pattern!

Obviously this issue is not about your browser extension per se but rather about the Zoom web client as it doesn't appear to work in Firefox (apart from the text-based chat):

Your browser does not support using the computer’s Audio device. To use Zoom, install the latest version of a standard browser, such as Chrome.

Since this extension is available for Firefox, I am wondering whether there's something I am missing, like another work-around to enable video and audio?

Does this add more load on the Zoom servers?

Does this add more load on the Zoom servers? Are we better citizens if we stay on the Zoom client, given we have access to that? #covid-19

[Feature Request] *.zoom.us/w/* links to *.zoom.us/wc/join/*

In an organizational meeting that requires registration in the new Web SDK update, a link such as https://planoisd.zoom.us/w/###########?tk=mG_acypqC_xZ1Bi2INZia9CvhTsYv0IqYh6qrCuNVDg.DQIAAAAUXL7A0hZqUUhFbVl3R1JsYXdHaDlJLWRQYkhnAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&pwd=SFVJVDVRTlJxYmpBaHIzRXdMaXQ4Zz09#success is given which should be redirected to https://planoisd.zoom.us/wc/join/###########?tk=mG_acypqC_xZ1Bi2INZia9CvhTsYv0IqYh6qrCuNVDg.DQIAAAAUXL7A0hZqUUhFbVl3R1JsYXdHaDlJLWRQYkhnAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&wpk=wcpk650a013a56aefba5645720e8a6ccfd6f which allows joining directly. The ########### is the ten-digit code of the meeting, censored out.

[Feature Request] Add option to enable/disable

There may be exceptions where there's one meeting that one would rather actually go to the app instead of the web client.

Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey support

It would be nice to add support for greasemonkey/tampermonkey.
Love the idea of this but don't want to install yet another extension.

Removed from Chrome Web Store

Zoom Redirector recently got removed from the Chrome Web Store with the message "This extension violates the Chrome Web Store policy."

This extension is so useful; do we know why it was removed and if it can be made available again?

Safari Extensions

Are there any plans for a Safari extension? Would love to see one considering Zoom's extensive vulnerabilities & privacy issues on MacOS