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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] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

On Linux, all unsandboxed apps are allowed to do anything your user account can do (without sudo) - there is no permission model. You could use Flatpaks but they're not perfect, likely would require customizing with Flatseal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

*without SELinux

But it's a pain to set up and I hate it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So that's like, reading all documents, writing stuff, and I assume it can also make outbound connections to servers?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yep. Anything you could do on the terminal without typing a password.