Hello! As far as I know regarding how Flatpak applications work, if I run a program through one Flatpak application, that program should inherit the permission from the application I’m running the program with, is that right? And I can easily manage the permissions with Flatseal.
Now, since lately I’ve been into TTRPGs, I was a bit interested in trying the video game Pathfinder: Wrath of the righteous. However, some time ago (last year I believe) I read there was a bit of community blackslash because the developers installed essentialy some spyware in the game. After the blackslash it seems they removed that particular piece of software (even if with Unity there’s always the possibility of data collection, even though it’s optional - apparently).
Now, while I don’t want to support that behaviour that’s sadly becoming the standard in the game industry (and not only that), I wanted to ask you all help in clearing a doubt. If I installed a game through Steam Flatpak and I removed the access from internet, external devices and limited the accessible path only to .var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam (in a second local Ubuntu account with nothing in it), is it a reasonably safe setup configuration to prevent games from harvesting data when I play from time to time?
When possible I buy my games DRM-free on GOG (and I do a similar setup with Lutris), but I have some titles on Steam too and I wanted to ask you all an opinion regarding the matter.
Kindly note that I know that Steam collects data too and I try to keep it at a minimum (offline mode etc etc). I’d just like to know if running other applications (games) with Steam will keep the same permissions set with Flatseal.
Thank you for your help or any observation!