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I've reported the SNAP to Canonical and emailed KDE security.
It looks like this exact same thing happened a year and a half ago (just search "snap exodus scam").
This is at least the third time this has happened. There was also a malicious app that was a cryptocurrency miner.
I don't know how Canonical can take themselves seriously when it comes to Snap. It's beyond embarassing. Their near complete lack of moderation has hurt people over and over again.
I'm not 100 sure what KDE Can do Because discover is not a Unified store It just pulls from the back end repos and either snap or flatpak set by the distro
They could still blacklist certain entries, it's nog like they don't have that control. Bazzite just launched its own alternative to Discover called Bazaar that hides things like the Steam flatpak that will fluff your day up. Whether the DE should be doing that sort of moderation is another question entirely, but I think the answer is clear if it's a straight up scam.
I don't think that it is the responsibility of KDE or Discover to perform blacklisting or cleanup here.
It is a upstream fuck Up by Canonical, again! The solution for this can't be that developers of a frontend, like Discover, now reserve and use time and resources to add and maintain blocklists to clean up that mess that they didn't created.
We should get our torches and pitchforks and put all the blame where it belongs, at Canonical!
I don't think it should be about blame game, though.
It's 100% Canonical's fault, but it would be nice for KDE team to at least respond to scam alerts they receive and block respective apps from appearing in Discover.
No it would not, because as soon as they implement such a blocklists feature and provide official blocklists they take over responsibility (morally and in some countries even legally) to ensure that they provide updated filter lists in a timely manner.
Oh and then they have to implement something that vets and checks incoming scam alerts, to ensure that only valid claims are blocked. This will put unneeded strain on the personal and financial resources of KDE.