Maintainers will disable features that they feel act in bad faith. Maintainers' greatest power is the ability to outright say "This is not good enough for our users" and consequently punish an ISV by either patching out the offensive part or in extreme cases removing the software from the repositories. ISVs know this and so don't act out. After 20 years of enforced good behavior this has lead to the idea of ISVs as "the benevolent upstream developer." This is why Linux doesn't have spyware, doesn't come with browser toolbars, doesn't bundle limited trials, doesn't nag you to purchase and doesn't pummel you with advertising.
http://kmkeen.com/maintainers-matter/It is simply not possible for abusive software to exist in Linux today. No maintainer would willingly release it. If a maintainer ever got a reputation for releasing abusive software they would be stripped of their privileges. Someone who cares steps up and becomes a maintainer instead. The system is aggressively self correcting. It has been like this for twenty years, so much to the point that few Linux ISVs even consider being unethical. And Linux users have a very hard time imagining that any ISV could ever act in bad faith.
And why Snaps and flatpaks can be bad news
