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Ubuntu Desktop’s 24.10 Dev Cycle - Part 5: Introducing Permissions Prompting

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Hi folks! As a bonus update ahead of the main September post I want to switch things up a bit and introduce you to an experimental new feature landing in the Ubuntu 24.10 dailies soon. Permissions prompting is a critical tool for privacy and security conscious users to control, manage and understan...

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This is a good thing, it is much needed for Snap and Flatpak and will make sandboxed applications less confusing for those who don't grog flatseal/kde-settings/etc. and adds convenience for everyone.

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In my book, while snaps are definitely annoying and crappy, Ubuntu entirely lost the plot when they started scaremongering with their Ubuntu Pro “security alert” upsell messages. That’s some Norton Antivirus level shit.

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