Snap-confine has elevated permissions

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Snap applications not launching due to a snap-confine elevated permissions issue

I’m running on a fairly new (clean install, two weeks ago) Ubuntu 20.04. After my last apt update none of the snap-installed applications will start, but fails with the following error: snap-confine has elevated permissions and is not confined but should be. Refusing to continue to avoid permission escalation attacks I have tried several suggestions from this forum, over the last couple of years, but nothing seems to work. Among others: snap-confine-has-elevated-permissions-and-is-not-conf…

(and i think there are a few more with that error if you search the forum …)