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The most important argument is phishing. People aren’t good at recognizing when a web site is legitimate. One reason that app certification is a shitshow is that recognizing bad players while minimizing false negatives and false positives is a difficult problem. Domain names fundamentally don’t solve that problem.
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> Domain names fundamentally don’t solve that problem.

App certification doesn't solve that problem either.

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Because even with HTTPS that script might not do what you expect and then is too late, xz style attack.
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You're already installing a binary, the script is not the weak link here.
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Depends, installing binaries on GNU/Linux usually assumes validated distro repos.
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