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[โ€“] bjorney@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months 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.