They are mostly Mozilla members, not Ubuntu members, who are responsible for the PPA. Are you sure, that your complaints and grievances are directed to the right address? See here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Contacts

Thanks, this is a very good reply, and it would have been wonderful, when the original reply would have been similar.

You basically have no control. It updates as many times as it wants, when it wants. You can try to adjust some timers to change the window when forced updates are rolled out, but can never tell it to NOT update something.

This is incorrect:

snap refresh --hold=forever

In general, I'd advise you to do a bit of research beforehand when giving advice...

Edit: Downvotes for factual information? Really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age

Estonian here. Soviet period was very problematic, and if you claim here that criticism of communism is fascism, then you are greatly mistaken. The crimes of communism during the Soviet period are well documented. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_crimes To point out that many Russians are longing for communism is quite possible, but these are the same Russians who are currently "liberating" Ukraine.

Exactly. My parents have been using Linux for years, they have no technical expertise, and most of the time they don't need it. For the average user, I find linux more stable than windows.