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by aaravchen 413 days ago
Not sure what OP was referring to, but snaps are indeed a ridiculous problem.

There's no control of when snaps update, Ubuntu has explicitly said they will never add this.

There was no way to disable snap auto-updates until just last year(-ish?) when Firefox finally announced they would no longer support snaps and started telling people how to tear them out and replace them with native packages or Flatpaks. Low-and-behold, Ubuntu suddenly got the feature to disable automatic snap updates. After saying explicitly they would never allow it for years, and telling high-uptime users to instead block snap daemon network access via the firewall to avoid it.