I know we all like to hate on canonical for literally any reason, but this happens with every single software repository that is not a closed garden and some that are.
And yeah, it’s sandboxed, so the damage is far, far less than it could be.
Canonical is a profitable corporation trying to convince people to use their actual closed garden software repository but they can’t even be bothered to do even the most basic of sanity checks to prevent obvious scams from appearing on their store. Stop making excuses for them.
I know we all like to hate on canonical for literally any reason, but this happens with every single software repository that is not a closed garden and some that are.
And yeah, it’s sandboxed, so the damage is far, far less than it could be.
Given that the snap store is a closed source proprietary component, I’d argue that snaps are a walled garden
That was supposed to be their one thing.
Canonical is a profitable corporation trying to convince people to use their actual closed garden software repository but they can’t even be bothered to do even the most basic of sanity checks to prevent obvious scams from appearing on their store. Stop making excuses for them.
I think the main issue here is they are telling users the software is safe without any due diligence.