Flathub now marks unverified apps

mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml – 420 points –
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How does that Help against Malware?

It makes it obvious to people whether they are downloading Google Chrome as packaged by Google or as by someone else. That being said, Google Chrome is malware. That being said there is a lot more that needs to be done to truly prevent malware, which will be costly but will hopefully take effect when they've got the budget for it

Because if you search Firefox and see a badge that says verified, you can be confident that it was Mozilla that packaged it and added it to FlatHub as opposed to some random scammer.

You can't just upload a App to Flathub. Everythng is reviewed.