Don't link to Brave's Flatpak (Desktop Browsers)

Flatpak interferes and weakens Chromium’s sandbox, even Brave admits it:

In addition, it modifies Chromium sandboxing in ways which have not been vetted by the Brave or Chromium security teams. We currently recommend that users who are able to use our official package repositories do so instead of using the Flatpak.

It also has some other issues that can be seen here: GitHub · Where software is built

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There’s also this Vivaldi discussion that secureblue uses to explain why they don’t use Flatpak Chromium

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There was a relevant comment on this forum in 2023. However, I think it’s worth revisiting this topic to provide additional clarification.

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Source ?

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