We can't just enable the patches any more because it will change how
snaps that plugs 'pulseaudio' will work. Put concretely, the patches are
meant to detect if the connecting process is a snap and if it is,
unconditionally deny recording. Some snaps that 'plugs: [ pulseaudio ]'
have legitimate use for audio recording, such as the chromium and
firefox snaps for Google Meet, etc. If these patches all of a sudden
were fixed, then snaps like firefox and chromium would no longer be able
to record audio.

While Ubuntu will end up patching pulseaudio in some way to support
record mediation, it won't be with these patches. This is being
discussed in https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/pulseaudio-recording/6361. If
you have experience with pulseaudio and are interested in the upcoming
changes, please keep an eye on the forum (and ideally participate in the
conversation). Thanks!

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