Why Gnome Software app directly connects to project website of the viewed App

Right, i can imagine it’s possible that Software does check/ping those URLs to make sure they are online / installable

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I’m still kind of surprised of an app store grabbing screenshots from uncontrolled external URLs, and even allowing it.

Regardless of how much of a theoretical issue it may or may not be, doesn’t it make more sense to not be pinging any out-of-app-store-URLs when glancing at app pages? The app stores can hold the app descriptions and host the apps (in a centralized location), but can’t handle hosting small thumbnails for those apps?
What exactly is stopping someone from changing an external URL on an app to something malicious? And if that something is a malicious takeover script/exploit, what’s stopping that from being executed when the app store decides to touch the URL? Or has nobody thought to try anything like this yet?

And what’s the privacy agreement related with this? I’m not into the idea of unrelated 3rd-party URLs getting my IP or other analytics just because I’m scrolling through an app list.

Right, i can imagine it’s possible that Software does check/ping those URLs to make sure they are online / installable

It ideally shouldn’t be doing any 3rd-party pinging until I decide to try installing it :stuck_out_tongue: