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Basically, my entire system is FOSS but I'm tempted to install the Spotify .deb package. Would that give Spotify access to info about my system?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Flatpaks do better sandboxing. So better then .deb's, but not better then using a web browser

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you're overriding the default permissions.. Flatpaks attempt to sandbox applications not built to work in a sandbox so the packages usually come with lots of holes prepunched that you probably can close without issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah use something flatseal to mess with further securing flatpaks