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Beginners Questions • [Solved] All things being equal, which is more privacy-friendly: snap pkg or .deb pkg?

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In this instance, neither are a part of the official Debian repo, but they are both available via the reputable company's website.

The company initially only had a snap app, but within the last few weeks released a .deb version which I jumped at as a Debian user

I have installed the .deb and and completely removed the snap (along w/ snapd)

However, after thinking about it for a while, I'm second guessing myself from a privacy perspective. Canonical is more business-friendly so less 'locked down' from a privacy perspective than flatpaks, but am I correct in assuming that .deb files are mostly unrestricted, assuming that my install is a tacit agreement of their privacy practices?

Can someone let me know whether my privacy concerns are better/worse/the same between the two install methods? Let me know if I'm off-base. The only other thing that comes to mind is manually locking down specific aspects via apparmor

Statistics: Posted by m4c-attack — 2024-06-26 01:28 — Replies 10 — Views 215



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