• bjorney
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    1 year ago

    The Snap Store is a proprietary closed-source black-box

    Every part of the snap store running on your computer is open source.

    that updates your snaps without asking

    If you don’t want your snaps auto-updating, turn auto updates off. snap --help

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      1 year ago

      I looked into it. You’re right.
      They implemented the ability to permanently hold all automatic updates.
      After five years of debate during which they consistently claimed that the whole point of Snaps is that developers can push whatever, whenever.