With that Ubuntu has become useless trash joining the ranks of Android and its impossible to disable constant Play Store updates funneling endless unknown changes onto a machine you supposedly own.
What? The play store lets you disable auto-updates, at least per-app.
Try absolutely blocking the play store from updating itself. Even when I've jumped through all the hoops to supposedly stop this from happening, it will still randomly do an update in my experience.
Please check the HN guidelines about "shallow dismissal".
I've had no problem disabling automatic Play Store updates on my phone. It's in the top level of the settings.
I'm talking about the play store updating itself. It's proven impossible to entirely disable over here, and when I used adb to forcibly uninstall the play store the device stopped booting a week later requiring a factory reset.