Hello! We have noticed a couple of reports recently about Google Play Protect removing KDE Connect from some people’s phones, claiming it was...
  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    14·
    9 months ago

    I keep Play Protect disabled so that it doesn’t do shit like this. I don’t need some mega corporation deleting stuff off my property that it doesn’t agree with.

  • Futurama@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    9 months ago

    I have play protect disabled. It gets annoying that it randomly asks to re-enable every so often, so I created a Tasker automation to dismiss that popup of it detects it. Doesn’t always work, but it’s better than nothing. Super annoying that you can’t tell Google to stop asking already and no, I don’t want play protect.

    I’m testing out grapheneos on another phone, which has all the Google stuff stripped out or sandboxed, so I don’t have to worry about it there.

    So no, play protect hasn’t removed my KDE connect app, but it hasn’t been given the opportunity to try.

    • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
      13·
      8 months ago

      GrapheneOS has Google Play Services with Play Protect. All you need to do on any Android phone is disable the app permission for reading other app packages or get usage data, using AppOpsX with ADB or AppOpsX with Shizuku. The sandboxing is almost meaningless when app permission control does everything in Android.

  • Mixel@feddit.de
    12·
    9 months ago

    Mines good and from the Reddit thread the majority of people installed it on fdroid and maybe play protect just removed it because the package name and signatures didn’t match, at least that is what’s being suspected

    • lemmyvoreEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      Play Protect has no business uninstalling apps for any reason. It should be scanning apk for malware at install time, period.

      • jonne@infosec.pub
        6·
        9 months ago

        If you installed a package with malware before its signature is added, you could have this malware on your phone forever.

        It should tell you if it deleted an app though.

      • Mixel@feddit.de
        1·
        9 months ago

        Completely agree with you A couple of days ago I was also confused I updated an app on fdroid and suddenly i got a push up message asking me to send the app to play protect to get it verified…

        • lemmyvoreEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          I remember it popping up a dialog “warning” me about an app I was about to install but I don’t remember what it was. It was something totally innocuous anyway. The installer has definitely started using some “political” criteria.

          Which is totally bogus, I mean it’s over thing for Google to arbitrarily kick apps out of the Store but it’s another to poke their nose into our phones and try to regulate what we use. Crosses a line.

  • max641@lemmy.world
    7·
    8 months ago

    Yes. Kdeconnect ( from Fdroid ) was removed. I just reinstalled from Playstore.

    I guess this will happen with other apps without notifying me. Anyone moving to microg ?

    Edit: updating this comment with lineageos/microg.